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Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE!
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Value ram?

BSD wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Chris Dillon wrote:
> > 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?
> 
>         Are you saying all 3 sticks are bad at 133MHz (KA7) and one
> or more is bad at 66MHz (BP6)?  The likelihood of that is extremely small.
> Also, a 512MB stick of RAM would cost me $1,600CAD.  Sigh.  That's not
> going to happen anytime soon.  Furthermore, I stress tested each stick of
> RAM, with make -j64 buildworld.  Nothing failed there.  The panics
> happenned when the system was just doing its normal tasks.  I'll try to
> post more detailed reports (including crash dumps).
> 
>                 --Bart
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