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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:39:45 -0500
From:      Damon Hopkins <dhopkins@rtci.com>
To:        Current Mailing list <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Random rebooting
Message-ID:  <3652DC31.9A1754FE@rtci.com>
References:  <199811180210.TAA21262@usr01.primenet.com>

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This sounds like what is happening to me. This machine is a AMD 486-133
w/ 24 MB RAM no funky drivers or anything.. it has NEVER rebooted like
this before.. I don't know about the heavy network load I did some huge
file transfers yesterday on our lan and had no ill effects. Well, well,
well, what to do.

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 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.

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