Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:44:43 +0000 From: Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unclean reboot during portupgrade Message-ID: <d014caa505021410447cc91695@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4210A992.20903@jimking.net> References: <d014caa505021400597aaff9b6@mail.gmail.com> <4210A992.20903@jimking.net>
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how would I check that? and yes, cd works fine... On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:37:22 -0600, Jim King <jim@jimking.net> wrote: > I made a Memtest86 bootable CD. Does your CD drive work? > > Check your power supply. I had similar problems, and it turned out the > extra power used during heavy disk I/O AND heavy CPU usage caused the > power supply to flake out. It caused all sorts of strange symptoms, > which all went away when the new power supply was installed. > > Ben Haysom wrote: > > >hi > > > >I have a problem with 5.3 FreeBSD on my Duron 700 mhz 512 Mb ram 200 gig HD. > > > >It currently reboots itself (without shutting down) before finishing a > >portupgrade -a. > > > >I was advised to test the memory and CPU (which I did using memtest > >and cpuburn - couldn't use memtest86 coz my floppy drive is busted) > >and they both seem fine. memtest did seem to struggle at the start. > > > >Next I've gone for fsck - seemed fine once it had fixed the errors > >(various switches -f and -y) but I'm not 100% sure of this. > > > >Any advice? > > > >Ben. > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >
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