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From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>,
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Subject: Re: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:04:12PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> Laurence Berland wrote:
> > 
> > Logical and oft-quoted extension:   If you think you've got a hardware
> > problem, try building something big.  Too many people report panics on
> > make buildworlds only to find it's the first sign of the death of their
> > RAM.
> 
> The funny thing is, I've never had a panic on a make world, only big
> ports.  And my ram is virtually brand new, could it die within 6 months
> of buying it?
>
Do you have one DIMM or two? I had spontaneous rebooting problems as well
as failing buildworlds when I had two DIMM's combined with different
CAS latency timings (8 ns and 7 ns). The system worked fine with only
one of them. Needless to say that mixing up is a bad thing, however shops
sometimes hardly know what they're selling...

Karel. 


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