From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 28 16:27:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0637B41F for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06847; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:27:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7ECAD9.4020102@owt.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:27:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Loren James Rittle Cc: melange@yip.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE (built 10/25) -> 4.5-STABLE (built and rebuilt during last week) References: <200203010017.g210HxC01073@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Loren James Rittle wrote: >>If you're going from having 1 dimm to 2, check your BIOS to see if >>there's a setting called something like "Speculative Read", and if it's >>turned on, turn it off. You may also want to try tweaking other options >>in there to more conservative settings (but only test things one at a >>time). >> > > For the record, I went from 3 128MB dimms to 4 of them. Should I manually > override SPD settings? I agree the type of crash makes me think it is > a hardware problem (like an idiot I upgraded two things close in time ;-). > > I will see if any other input come in while at dinner and then take action. > I'm leaning towards pulling the extra memory (as I want to refuse to > believe that STABLE has failed me ;-). There were some Tyan boards that permitted 4 dimms and 3 was all that was allowed by the spec. You may be seeing that problem. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message