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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> 
> > I have been having problems with my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box.
> > I do not know why, but it is crashing down almost every hour!!!
> > 
> [...]
> > I returned to version 2.2.6 and I have the same problem, but my file
> > systems remain healty.
> > 
> > I suppose it has something to do with my computer itself and not with
> > the operating system.  I suposse I have to custom something in my BIOS.
> > 
> > DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ????
> 
> In most cases like yours (assuming no-conflicts + std Pentium chip)
> it's to do with bad memory. 

mmmmh... it is a genuine Intel Pentium chip.

> [Check out another thread just the past
> few days very similar to yours]. You'll have to replace bank-by-bank
> to find the bad SIMMS.
> 

Thank you very much Jonathan!

I'll check them.
I have another two SIMMS.

Unfortunately I do not know how to make my computer to crash.  And I'm
afraid of making it fail because, as I already stated, my file systems get
corrupted.  When it happens, I have had to reinstall FreeBSD again. 
Perhaps I can make a program that allocates a lot of memory and I'll try
to make several read/write access to it... 

Thank you!


> Jonathan Chen
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>                  "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny"
>                                                       - Kin Hubbard
> 
> 




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