Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:47:42 -0700 From: Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz> To: Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11) Message-ID: <398B2BEE.CA9BD5CD@es.co.nz> References: <200008041318.IAA60387@bloop.craftncomp.com>
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Stephen Hocking wrote: > > About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world. > After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a > 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in return > that actually works with a 100MHz bus. I think the trip from Australia and > this Texas heat finally pushed the dodgy one over the edge. Have you tried any memory testing routines such as memtest86 ? Its the only you write to a floppy and it runs before any bootstrap kicks in -- independant of the OS -- and takes around 18 hours for a single pass. It appears to be quite a comprehensive torture test. If so, how did that dodgy DIMM perform? (The reason I ask is that I'm interested in knowing if these tests can reveal the problems that building world did in your situation.) -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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