From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 8:47:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5AB37B421; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fASGl5w89814; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 64.173.182.155 ( [64.173.182.155]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 Message-ID: <1006966025.3c05150958592@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: "Samuel J.Greear" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght References: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 64.173.182.155 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting "Samuel J.Greear" : | On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:36 am, Edwin Culp wrote: | > I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with the | > ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G PC133 | > RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 | > panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement | > chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the | > new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips | > I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes | > get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with | > a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about | > four weeks now and can't make it work. | > | > It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and | > release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even | > took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on | > an ide disk with no real change. | > | > Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at | > rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the | > machine almost a month late because they were having problems | > installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me | > think that they were having the same problems and rather than | > fixing them decided to ship:-( | > | > Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially with | > the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] | > | > Thanks, | > | > ed | > | | We had some problems with several ServerWorks-based boards.. (Intel) | Symptoms were remarkably similar, seemingly random panics (sig11). | At first we thought it was RAM, but the memory checked out good, | then we thought it might be a heat issue, so we pulled the cover | and got some fans blowing on it, this helped a bit. Then we decided | to try running a UP kernel, this helped considerably but didn't | completely eliminate the problem. Finally, we flashed the BIOS to | the newest version, not a problem since. That is what I wanted to do but can't get the floppy to boot:-( It works but will not boot under any circumstances. It'll boot from the cd, the hd and network but not the floppy. I'm going to have to bring it up with a windows cd, I guess, and then flash the bios from the floppy. thanks for your help, ed | | Sam | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message