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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:39:16 -0700
From: Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB
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I have had odd behavior like you are describing with cheap
motherboards.  I ran all of the memory tests etc, and everything
passed with flying colors.  Despite passing all of the tests I could
throw at the hardware, windows 2000 was very unstable.  We ultimately
ended up replacing the board.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:13 +0000, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:43PM -0800, Jean Lagarde wrote:
> > Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely
> > hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the
> > suggestion about disabling ACPI however.
> >
> > To address some of the other comments, that exact CPU-mobo-memory
> > configuration worked fine running Win2000 for many years, so I doubt it
> > is the problem per se.
> 
> Doesn't rule out bugs in the ACPI support of your motherboard.  Some
> low-quality motherboards only implement an approximation to the ACPI
> spec to a level that gets windows to run.
> 
> Kris
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