From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 20 13:32: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from front7.grolier.fr (front7.grolier.fr [194.158.96.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF1C37B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nas7-70.vlt.club-internet.fr (nas7-70.vlt.club-internet.fr [194.158.109.70]) by front7.grolier.fr (8.9.3/No_Relay+No_Spam_MGC990224) with ESMTP id WAA17702; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:31:45 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:15:10 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= X-Sender: groudier@linux.local To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Chris Dillon , BSD , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! In-Reply-To: <20000920093316.X9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Chris Dillon [000920 09:01] wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, BSD wrote: > >=20 > > > =09Thanks for any help! Oh, and these panics can be as close as 12 > > > minutes and as far apart as 8 days (not the documented ones, but the = ones > > > I have had up to this point, with all 3 DIMMs in place). You can see= the > > > uptimes for the documented panics at the bottom of the JPEGs. > >=20 > > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem. > > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard > > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory > > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS. If you STILL have > > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on > > something else. The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is > > when overclocking the processor. You aren't overclocking those > > processors are you? >=20 > Another problem can be heating issues, it doesn't matter how good > your case's cooling is when the surrounding tempatures are too high. IIRC, it is a 700 MHz Athlon with PC133 Memory. 700/133 =3D 5.26 I am not AMD CPU aware, but such divisor would be unusual for Intel CPUs and the only way not to overclock the CPU (using 5.5) would be to underclock it (using 5.0), or to use the PC133 memory as PC100 and set factor to 7. G=E9rard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message