From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 06:01:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA27230 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27225 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id GAA15055 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-15.ime.net [206.231.148.144]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA00209; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:00:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <322C2BFA.228F@ime.net> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:00:43 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone have a memory test? References: <199609022017.QAA21812@shell.monmouth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > > Sorry for the repost -- if you've seen this twice... I bounced my last > due to an aliases screw up -- Bill > > I've been fighting memory problems ever since I pulled out my motherboard > and installed a new one. > > Unfortunately, the new one didn't work -- so I put back the old one. > (The simms never came off it when it was pulled -- so I expected no problem... > however, it's now sig-11, sig6 city. > > Dos based memory tests show nothing (I've got 20 meg... my best diag > doesn't test past 16). > > FreeBSD boots, runs, and sig-11's occasionally during make world and heavy > X stuff. I went from 20 meg to 8mb of 1mb simms -- same problem. > I went to 16mb of 4mb simms -- same problem. > > I reseated and enabled and disabled the cache... same problem. > > I swapped in a DX2/66 to try to see if the problem would show up or go away > with a CPU reseat/replacement. No luck. > > I'm waiting for the new motherboard -- and I have new 72 pin simms for it. > (It's en route from the company as a swap with the bad one.) > > Anyone have a memory test recommendation that works short of a hardware > memory test. I remember FreeBSD 1.5 pulled out errors on my wife's box > that were causing crashes under OS/2 and SIG11's under Linux. > > I sure miss minicomputers with real memory controllers with memory > address registers that latch parity errors and report the address. > I sure miss BSD on a Vax that reported the ECC location and correction bits... > You might try de-tuning your system BIOS, ie: Wait states. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848