From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 1 17:22:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1959157DA for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2048.bossig.com [208.26.242.48]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09067; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37547700.680F3B38@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:12:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Lui Cc: Doug Ambrisko , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot while CPU usage is high References: <199906012014.NAA20880@cup44ux.cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Lui wrote: > > > Great to hear. This seems to be a common problem now. I had a couple > > people do this and their machines have become stable. Seems like a lot > > of marginal PC100 memory is out there. > > I was told the other stick of SDRAM was not PC100, but this is my first > PC that uses SDRAM. Seems like the BIOS/hardware/architecture isn't very > smart about mixing different grades of SDRAM. The problem gets worse with the 440bx chipset. I have been told that for this chipset, you need 7/8ns PC-100 or CAS2. You will sometimes see memory separated for the bx machines. Kent > > Ken > -- > Ken Lui 19111 Pruneridge Avenue > klui@cup.hp.com Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA > Information Solutions & Services 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.0218 > Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message