From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 18:46:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA1537B4C5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn203-ras36.screaming.net [212.188.131.203]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA23205 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:49:30 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware diagnostics? Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:45:36 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Ingham wrote: >I have a machine built from parts (to avoid the microsoft tax) >running 4.1 with a 4-STABLE kernel (built on another FreeBSD 4-Stable >machine). It is hanging at random places. I suspect hardware for >the following reason: If I boot the system and try to compile a >kernel, it will hang (no response to ping, no response on console) >during the make depend. Unfortunately, it does not hang in the >same place each time, which is why I suspect hardware. > >How does one go about testing hardware short of buying a second >collection of parts and changing them one at a time? > "Hanging at random places" reminds me of something I was reading at: http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/ HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message