From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 14:34:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms3.rit.edu (vms3.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2627237B404 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:34:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic.rit.edu ([129.21.10.113]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KDHVPW66DOE0IICF@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:34:16 EST Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:34:09 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x - lock ups + reboots In-reply-to: <20020125221659.A82704844F@wastegate.net> X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020125172313.01e48290@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20020125221143.GA1203@raggedclown.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> > >> sounds like bad ram to me. > >> > >> try installing and using /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest > >> > >> it helps identify if you ram is bad. > >> > >Except his problem is very similar to mine, although much more > >problematic. > >And the memory on my system laughs in derision at memtest's attempt > >to break it :) > >that is always nice... i guess time to break out the DIMM tester. I think I'll chime in, here. :) Though I've never used memtest, I've never had any other software memory tester tell me anything useful. For hardware diagnostic tools, my very strong recommendation goes to Ultra-X. You can find them at www.uxd.com or www.ultra-x.com (If you type in the latter, don't forget the hyphen or you'll end up at an adult site.) Their products are expensive and aimed at the professional market, so they aren't really intended for someone who has to test memory once on just one machine. A lot of hardware passes through my hands and I maintain a lot of systems, so it was well worth the investment for me. The last card I bought from them, the PhD PCI was about $1200 US last I checked, but I got it for $1000 because I was a previous customer. I've never had their cards fail to identify a memory problem. There are also other diagnostics built in for testing motherboards, CPUs, disk drives of all types, etc. The time and money they've saved me has paid for the test equipment many times over. This sounds a lot like a commercial... Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message