From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 14: 6:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from botbay.net (botbay.net [151.197.159.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7D237BB79 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 14:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wcampbel@botbay.net) Received: from localhost (wcampbel@localhost) by botbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01611; Tue, 16 May 2000 17:06:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wcampbel@botbay.net) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:06:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Walter Campbell To: Dwight Tuinstra Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: occasional reboots In-Reply-To: <3921A3EE.E4464CA3@clarkson.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my case, it was a bad L2 Cache chip. Try disabling the cache and trying to duplicate the problem (issue a few buildworld's for instance) Also check the RAM, DMA Controller Chips, and any adapter cards. Without having it cause SIGBUS or SIGSEGV and the occasional panic then reboot, You should also suspect the Power Supply > I was afraid (but half expecting) someone would say that. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about figuring out the cause? > > Any suggestions on what (Award) BIOS options to set for > maximum stability? > > Is it possible/probable that one of the option cards is to > blame? (Zoom telephonics IDE modem and ATI Rage II Pro Turbo > in one machine; de0 NIC and ATI Rage IIC in the other.) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message