From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 06:29:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11802 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megadeth.rtci.com (megadeth.noc.rtci.com [216.27.37.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11793 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhopkins@rtci.com) Received: from rtci.com (oxygen.schizo.com [216.27.37.251]) by megadeth.rtci.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26631; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:33:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dhopkins@rtci.com) Message-ID: <3652DC31.9A1754FE@rtci.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:39:45 -0500 From: Damon Hopkins Organization: Research Triangle Consultants, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Current Mailing list Subject: Re: Random rebooting References: <199811180210.TAA21262@usr01.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- [-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--=-] [ Damon Hopkins mailto: dhopkins@rtci.com ] [ Software Developer http://totally.schizo.com ] [ Research Triangle Consultants, Inc. http://www.rtci.com ] [ -- In search of the elusive 50 sided triangle. -- ] [-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--=-] 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message