From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 6:14:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se (k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se [194.47.220.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8757737B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1230 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 14:14:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gollum.k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se) (192.168.0.2) by k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 14:14:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 862 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Oct 2000 14:14:10 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:14:10 +0100 From: Sverre Valgeirsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page fault Message-ID: <20001030151410.B761@gollum.k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se> Reply-To: e96sv@efd.lth.se Mail-Followup-To: Sverre Valgeirsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20001029112812.B312@gollum.k9k203-3.kam.afb.lu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:42:37AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:42:37AM -0500, Jaime wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Sverre Valgeirsson wrote: > > Hi. I'm trying to put more memory into my 486 DX2 computer. > > It's got 16MB at the moment (2 8MB 72 pin simms), but when I add one more 8MB simm, the BIOS sees it, but the kernel panics at boot with a "page fault" error. > > I really don't know where I should begin searching for the error here. Any ideas? > > Sounds like a defective SIMM, to be honest. It works in my Amiga computer, so it's probably not that. I've now tried 8 different simms in the machine, I've put them in different slots, but nothing works. Can it be something about EDO/non EDO problems? I don't know if the simms I'm tying now are EDO, but I do know that the old ones are not.. /sverre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message