Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:57:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Spirer-McNamee <spimac@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system hangs after successful install Message-ID: <19990404105735.P2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990404011322.19542.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from Spirer-McNamee on Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 05:13:22PM -0800 References: <19990404011322.19542.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com>
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On Saturday, 3 April 1999 at 17:13:22 -0800, Spirer-McNamee wrote: > --- Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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). Good to hear. > 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. I suppose it could be interesting. The big problem with BIOS settings is that you need to know so much about the chipset before you can even understand what they do, let alone set them correctly. > And thanks for your help! You're welcome. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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