From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 17 18:11:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02801 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:11:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02795 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13245; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:11:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd013129; Tue Nov 17 19:10:55 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21262; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:10:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811180210.TAA21262@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Random rebooting To: terbart@aye.net Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:10:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, grog@lemis.com, dhopkins@rtci.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Barrett Richardson" at Nov 17, 98 07:42:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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