Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:00:43 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: kayasaman@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error Message-ID: <4de9679b.AE3DPW9jNqVtiL2D%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4DE8CF13.1040304@gmail.com> References: <4DE8CF13.1040304@gmail.com>
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Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with <500MB RAM. > ... > Everything was running fine until round about 2 days > ago when the system started locking up on me? > > ... is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly? Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? If not, this is likely to be a hardware problem. I'd suggest checking the power supply and the fans, running memtest86, and taking a close look at the electrolytic filter capacitors on the system board -- the last because it sounds as if this system may be about the right age to have been built with some bad ones. (If any of the capacitors are bulging, either those caps, or the entire board, need to be replaced.) Power and heat problems can cause all sorts of strange symptoms.
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