Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:21:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Spirer-McNamee <spimac@yahoo.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system hangs after successful install Message-ID: <19990405142145.21520.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com>
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> On Saturday, 3 April 1999 at 17:13:22 -0800, Spirer-McNamee wrote: > > --- Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >> > >> It's difficult to diagnose this kind of problem, but it's almost > >> always mainboard hardware. It's seldom anything to do with the disk > >> (you can have problems with the disks, too, of course, but the > >> symptoms are different). The two most likely culprits are the memory > >> and the BIOS settings. > > > > This is a follow-up to a problem I was having (my 2.2.8-RELEASE > > system was crashing hard within a few hours of start-up). I set > > the BIOS to "BIOS default", restarted, and the system has been > > running fine ever since (6 days now; hope I'm not jinxing it by > > sending this message). Oops! I guess I did jinx it--it crashed, same as before, within 24 hours of sending the previous message. So now I guess my next step, short of throwing the machine off a bridge, is to see about memory problems. Pat -- Patrick McNamee spimac@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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