Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:10:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: terbart@aye.net Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, grog@lemis.com, dhopkins@rtci.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random rebooting Message-ID: <199811180210.TAA21262@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981117192212.4226A-100000@phoenix.aye.net> from "Barrett Richardson" at Nov 17, 98 07:42:56 pm
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> Me too. My monitor would go >blink<, then .. memory test. Sometimes > when I would get home, I would find that it had rebooted a couple > times during the day. Sometimes it would run flawlessly for 10 days. > Replaced memory, controllers, video cards, even disks. Loaded > Virus NT a couple of weeks back and saw the darndest thing. You > could wiggle the mouse pointer over an icon and it would smudge > as if it were wet paint while Xwindows was unaffected. Found out that it > would go away if I turned off the internal cache on the CPU. The reboots > ceased -- defective CPU. My MB is a Tyan 1570. This is on a 486DX/4-100, no L2 cache, sufficient stepping that the L1 cache should be OK, but I have tried it with the L1 cache disabled (had to hack a control register in locore.s to do it), with the same effect. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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