From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 12 4:12:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from postino.fi.infn.it (postino.fi.infn.it [192.84.145.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6715D37B422 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 04:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it) Received: from nikita.fi.infn.it (nikita.fi.infn.it [192.84.146.189]) by postino.fi.infn.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3CBFsR91666; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:15:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:12:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Riccardo Veraldi X-Sender: To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Subject: RE: Interested in your opinion "machine check" In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B38@l04.research.kpn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org yes I removed and reinstalled the ram modules. But I do not know where the cache chips are really localted. Actually the AS compiled the XFree source during all the day and nothing happened (no that much big disk spinning). I came back home and start using tar and pkg_add and it crashed... The compilation test is more meaningfull for eventually ram problems. I Am concerned it must be something wrong with the Disk, or the disk having some strange influence on the power supply as you suggested me. I will look better at the power supply when I go home. Thanks for your precious considerations! bye Rick On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:55:50 +0100 > From: "Koster, K.J." > To: 'Riccardo Veraldi' > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Interested in your opinion "machine check" > > Dear Riccardo, > > > > > Yes it's a good idea... I could try to feed the disk with an > > extern power > > supply. Anyway I not only have a HD, there is also the CDrom > > which sucks on the power supply of my AS 255. > > > Well, you could simply unplug the cdrom and other unused stuff from the > machine and see if that helps. > > I double an idle cdrom drive is going to draw a noticeable amount of power, > though. > > Have you tried removing and replacing the RAM, as Wilko suggested earlier? > If the contacts are very dirty you can carefully clean them with a glass > fibre brush. Watch for static electricity, though. :-) > > You may want to do the same with the cache chips, if they're DIP format. > > Kees Jan > > ================================================ > You are only young once, > but you can stay immature all your life. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message