From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 8: 6:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from min.net (min.net [208.222.210.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDEA14CEB for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 08:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aling@alum.mit.edu) Received: from localhost (outpost.cc.nih.gov [137.187.245.138]) by min.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA09183; Mon, 10 May 1999 11:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199905101506.LAA09183@min.net> From: "A. Ling" To: "FreeBSD-questions" , "David Greenman" Date: Mon, 10 May 99 11:06:03 -0400 Reply-To: "A. Ling" X-Mailer: Alexander Ling's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to identify "remarked" chips? (was: Strange reboot saga) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I couldn't find anything in the FAQ or archives of -hardware or -questions about recognizing this problem, though I did find other references to re-marked cpu chips. Do they just have paper labels pasted on top, or do you mean something else? On Sun, 09 May 1999 14:31:23 -0700, David Greenman wrote: > I had problems with a couple of systems spontaneously rebooting when doing >lots of disk I/O. Turned out that the 450MHz Pentium-II's in them were >actually re-marked 350's. Needless to say, the problems disappeared when I >put real 450's in them. > >-DG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message