From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 11:33:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7364937B405 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7502243FA3 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C4B66B37; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC7DA467; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Tuc Cc: Bill Moran , Kris Kennaway , Bsd Neophyte , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Message-ID: <20030305193352.GA90506@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3E66472D.8010407@potentialtech.com> <200303051859.h25Ix5HQ003290@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303051859.h25Ix5HQ003290@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0500, Tuc wrote: > >=20 > > It could be incompatible hardware (i.e. mostly compatible hardware) that > > works most of the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, t= he > > vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. > > > Its been working reliably since last May in 4.5/4.6/4.7.... Then > the hard drive failed, put a fresh install, and then it was reliable unt= il > I was portupgrading X. What could the X system do so horrible that would > make the screen just go black and then the splash page happen? It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers, =2E..). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is most likely to fail. Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZlEfWry0BWjoQKURAhkAAKDviaXPWmoZ8dXRo7HQzz6EpOj3KwCfVTa9 YT+iyyOmzSTnK60scXteiZU= =fykE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message