Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:43:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se> Cc: Send to newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade story Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040716090.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIKEKACAAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>
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> I upgraded from 2.2.8 to 4.1 today and thought I might share with some of > you other newbies the adventures I went through. If you will bear with me, > a bit of background might be useful or even entertaining. Thanks for the pointers James! :) It was entertaining to read, filled with lots of good information, and most importantly; On topic for -newbies! :) Now, if y'all indulge me, let me tell you what I've learned this weeked. Fatal Trap Error 12 (if I remeber the error message,) is not always a system ram problem. It all started with the purchase of a 23 gig ultrawide SCSI drive off of Ebay. It was refurbished and came with a year garuntee. It was one of the better branded Seagate models so I figured that it's only a workstation - not a problem. Lo and behold, the drive is bad! Not a problem put my old one back in. All the sudden the system wouldn't boot. I kept getting Fatal Trap errors, or the machine would lock up seconds after I logged in. After two days of playing with this a new problem appeared. The computer would turn, but nothing would show up on the screen. Ok, I figured, that along with the memory error most likely means my motherboard is toast. Just to be sure I tested the two 64 meg memory sticks in another computer - worked great. (Good enough that my GF now "needs" 128 megs of RAM in her computer... :) Anyways, new motherboard and new case (had to upgrade to ATX... UHG... ) Lo and behold, the exact same problem!!! After scratching my head and pulling hair, I started to pull the system apart. And layed my hand upon the video card. Immediatly I burned my hand on one of the RAM chips. The computer had been on for less then 30 seconds and the one RAM chip was to hot to touch. So... replace the video card and walla! Working system... (At 16 colors because I don't have a decent video card to replace it with yet...:) Anyways... I learned two lessons really... Bad RAM can include the RAM on the video card! And I really need to get off of phone support and back into the hands on environment, my skills are suffering.... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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