From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 3 17:14:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web122.yahoomail.com (web122.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1743014FBF for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spimac@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990404011322.19542.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Received: from [207.205.142.245] by web122.yahoomail.com; Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:13:22 PST Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:13:22 -0800 (PST) From: Spirer-McNamee Subject: Re: system hangs after successful install To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Greg Lehey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Greg Lehey wrote: > > It's difficult to diagnose this kind of problem, but it's almost > always mainboard hardware. It's seldom anything to do with the disk > (you can have problems with the disks, too, of course, but the > symptoms are different). The two most likely culprits are the memory > and the BIOS settings. This is a follow-up to a problem I was having (my 2.2.8-RELEASE system was crashing hard within a few hours of start-up). I set the BIOS to "BIOS default", restarted, and the system has been running fine ever since (6 days now; hope I'm not jinxing it by sending this message). Several memory- and cache-related settings are different in BIOS default than they were before. I don't know how the old settings were determined; the machine came that way. Anyway, if anyone needs more details about the differences between the original settings and the default settings, let me know. And thanks for your help! Pat -- Patrick McNamee spimac@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message