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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:06:33 -0500
From:      Rick Bischoff <bischoff@rickjr.org>
To:        "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Lockups
Message-ID:  <762805203.20011218120633@rickjr.org>
In-Reply-To: <004901c187e4$69f82d50$c80aa8c0@lfarr>
References:  <004901c187e4$69f82d50$c80aa8c0@lfarr>

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Hello Lawrence,

      I haven't tried that yet since I am still looking for a 95/98
      boot disk.  And, my mistake, it's actually a S2460 Tiger MP
      board.

Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 11:52:43 AM, you wrote:

LF> Have you flashed the latest bios?

LF> Lawrence Farr
LF> EPC Direct Limited 

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 
>> [mailto:ostable@FreeBSD.ORGwner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Bischoff
>> Sent: 18 December 2001 16:28
>> To: stable-digest
>> Subject: Lockups
>> 
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>>   I am running a dual AMD Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 motherboard with
>>    dual AMD 1700 XP+ (the 1.4 GHz version) with 512 MB ECC RAM, and
>>    two western digital 40GB and 30GB hard drives.
>> 
>>  Anyways, I can install FreeBSD (4.3 Release) just fine.
>>  I can cvsup the entire source tree.  I can't compile squat.
>> 
>>  What happens.. Get's half hour into compiling world, or half way into
>>  building a new kernel and the entire system hard locks.  Same thing
>>  happens with SuSE Linux 7.3.  System works fine in Windows 2K.
>> 
>>  This is with a minimal install, so I am not using my graphics or
>>  sound system at all! Any ideas? I'm beginning to think its the BIOS
>>  MP setting (it's at the 1.4 MP spec)-- would changing it to 1.1
>>  Compatibility mode help??

-- 
Best regards,
 Rick                            mailto:bischoff@rickjr.org


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