From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 13:35: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA8237B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust37.tnt5.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.93.37]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25501; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00568; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:34:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105222034.QAA00568@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: microuptime() went backwards In-Reply-To: <3B0AA0DC.D3477C60@mclink.it> from Marco Masotti at "May 22, 2001 07:24:44 pm" To: masotti@mclink.it (Marco Masotti) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My friend had a problem doing an install of FreeBSD 4.2 on an ABIT single CPU board that he was overclocking. When he was able to complete the install the system would inevitably give him strange errors, not sure if this was one of them. Try running without overclocking(I know, hard thing to give up I've heard) and see if the problem comes back. Ian As told by, Marco Masotti > Ian Thomas wrote: > > > I have the same mobo only with two 500's. I have > > not gotten that message. I was running 3.2 Release > > and just recently cvsupped to 3.x Stable. I also > > don't keep the system on, it's in my bedroom and the > > fans keep me from sleeping. I did lose the ability to > > go into suspend using apm after enabling the smp > > kernel. I have not tried it with Stable yet. Are you > > able to use apm suspend? As far as the error, are you > > overclocking? > > > > Hello Ian, > > My system uptimes vary, but the occurrence of the problem is independent > of the duration of uptime. > It's also independent of system load condition or system > temperature/cooling. > > It may in fact happen even at boot stage, preferrably in that case > when having just checked the filesystems (my system is scsi-only) > > The problem is also relatively rare, it's exhibited once in ten-fifteen > reloads. > The system may sustain busy 100% cpu with a double seti routine running > smooth for two or three days like a charm and being shut down by the > user on an independent basis. > > apm is disabled in kernel and in the bios. > Celerons are 366 overclocked at 550. > > Thanks for replying, keeping you informed if anything discovered. > > -- > Marco > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message