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Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro
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Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:50 AM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
> wrote:
> > From what you've said I strongly suspect that you have some
> > kind of hardware issue. Dodgy RAM is my first guess ...
>
> That's what we're leaning toward as well.  We're planning on
> doing a BIOS upgrade (betadrive is running v2.00 and alphadrive
> is v1.00), then a memtest86+ run, then check firmware on the
> SATA controllers.

I'd suggest doing the memtest86+ run first, rather than risk doing
a BIOS upgrade with bad RAM (which could brick the machine).