Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:12:04 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: fjwcash@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system Message-ID: <4f0c6354.ua95H8JsdztgE1m0%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ4PYci9QrABntFf33-ZPdO%2BuR%2Bz8j0bnkJdCqEV_VHHig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOjFWZ6PbXCBoOinZRvXKmHDM8xWsYU657yPh5-i9TsmnFpdVg@mail.gmail.com> <F9A87D68-27E4-4872-A2F2-CD3F0F4D1BE4@jnielsen.net> <CAOjFWZ4PYci9QrABntFf33-ZPdO%2BuR%2Bz8j0bnkJdCqEV_VHHig@mail.gmail.com>
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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).
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