From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 28 16:31:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E32D437B405 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:31:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgeine (AUTH poptime) at adsl-63-198-133-39.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO edinburgh) (63.198.133.39) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 00:31:45 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Jesse Geddis" To: "Kent Stewart" , "Loren James Rittle" Cc: , Subject: RE: 4.4-STABLE (built 10/25) -> 4.5-STABLE (built and rebuilt during last week) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:31:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <3C7ECAD9.4020102@owt.com> Importance: Normal 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 I have almost the same board as him. personally I've had more problems then I can count with this board (especially compared to tyan which I run bsd on now and kicks ass). mind is a P2B-DS. only difference between his and mine is mine is dual processor and has onboard Adaptec 7890 SCSI. I have all 4 dim slots full. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:27 PM 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) 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message