From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 21:39:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA23266 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:39:45 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23260 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 21:39:42 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA00863; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:39:04 +0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:39:02 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Evan Champion cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problem with 2940 SOLVED In-Reply-To: <199506122145.RAA01001@sentinel.synapse.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, Evan Champion wrote: > > Guess what the problem was. > > Dead SIMM. Sounds like a problem I had with one of my machines when I first installed 2.0.5-ALPHA on it. It was a brand new motherboard, but I was getting random crashes and kernel panics while installing. The master partition editor screen had an extra '0' printed in one character cell, while the colour dialog screens did not. I couldn't figure out what was causing the problem, because an identical machine sitting next to it breezed through the install. After I inspected the motherboard, I noticed the metal clips that hold a SIMM in place were broken, and the SIMM (although held in place) was wobbly. Exchanged the motherboard the next day and all the problems disappeared. Bad contacts can cause weird stuff. Reminds me of Apple's field maintenance suggestion for their Apple III's: life the computer about a foot above a hard, flat surface, then drop. Reseat chips as necessary. ;-) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org