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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 02:38:44 -0500
From:      Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ECS-K7S5A motherboard stability issues
Message-ID:  <20011217023844.C333@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca>

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About a month ago I got a hold of my new machine:

ECS-K7S5A motherboard
Thunderbird 1200
256 MB DDR-SDRAM
40GB IBM HD
NVIDIA GF2 MX/400 64MB video card
(that should be all the important stuff)

Now, I've been having some rather nasty stability issues with this
machine, and was wondering whether anyone out there has been having the
same type of issues.

It seems to 'randomly reboot', like it did just five minutes ago. At
first I thought these were related to I/O or so (FTP transfers would
cause lockups/reboots, watching movies too, though I suspect this is an
mplayer stability issue), but now they just seem to occur whenever they
feel like. My uptime before the last one was just above three days, the
longest I've had it running.

Additionally (and this might be the source of the problem, I don't
know), my ATA100 controller is only recognized as ATA33, dmesg output:

atapci0: <SiS 5591 ATA33 controller> port 0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on
pci0

I saw a thread on -hackers a few weeks ago that might resolve the
controller issue, but I'm not sure. Any pointers or hints would be
appreciated (or if I in some way can give you necessary information,
please tell me). Sorry about the rather lame report, I haven't had time
to dig around though.

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Thanks.

--
-Munish

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