Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:57:07 PST From: "Jeffry Komala" <jk@darwin.tti.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: persistent console crash on 2.1.5R Message-ID: <199701090057.QAA24662@darwin.tti.net>
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I have a 2.1.5R box that has been operational for a few months. The problem is, after a random period of time after I rebooted the machine, the console would crash and the keyboard locked-up. The console behaved as if there is no signal from the video card (low power/sleep mode) while the keyboard simply locked-up. Yet, everything else was still running as if nothing happened. This behavior persisted when I rebooted the machine a few more times. Last night, I replaced the PCI VGA card with a monochrome card and it also trashed the console with garbage character after 20-15 minutes. The keyboard is still functional though. System has Pentium-100 with Triton chipsets, 64MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, IBM 2GB SCSI-3, Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B. This system used to have 2.1R in it and it ran just fine, never crashed the console and/or locked-up the keyboard before. The only piece of hardware I changed when I upgraded to 2.1.5R are the ethernet card and the hard drive. I used to have an Accton combo (NE2000 compatible). I also did a fresh installation of 2.1.5R and then tar the /home and some other essential files. So, it came as clean as it can be. Does anyone has experienced a similar problem or have any idea to fix this? TIA. Please CC your reply to jk@tti.net. Thanks. -jeff-
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