Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:07:57 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=E2=C5=D2=A3=DA=CB=CF_=E9=D7=C1=CE?= <iberiozko@infodom.ru> To: 'Pete French' <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, "'stable@freebsd.org'" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Curious crash Message-ID: <2805FC469F47234E8F85F5AE5AD8F57B0987D6@falcon.win.infodom.ru>
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Hello. Are you using screensaver? -----Original Message----- From: Pete French [mailto:pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 6:58 PM To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Curious crash Has anybidy else seeen a BSD machine crash in such a way thart the screen fills with vertical black and white stripes ? The machine in question has nobody logged into it and is not running X, it is being used as a gateway to a PPP connection though. Normally I would put this down to flaky hardware and not bother mentioning it here. But I have had this problem for a year and a half now - and the crashes still occur *despite* having replaced the whole machine. I have also moved house, so its not the mains supply to the building (which was my other suspect). These crashes were originally seen on a 3.3 system, and I am now running 4.4 STABLE. The only hardware the machines have in common is the modem and a couple of external SCSI hard drives (properly terminated and running in a different configuration on this machine to the original machine). The are also both using the same *type* of graphic card (Matrox Millenium II) though not the same physical ppart (and I have tried other cards) The fact that the machine simply freezes, corrupting video memory as it does so, is what concerns me the most. Has anybody seen anything similar or have any suggestions ? I am wondering if it is rrelated to my PPP link, but I am using user mode PPP sothat shouldnt cause sucha dramitic crash surely ? The hardware is (preseumably) irrelevent, but for the sake of completeness: Old machine: AMD K6-450, 64MB or RAM, Adaptec 2940 controller, two internal 1GB discs, 2 external 9GB discs. 3C509 ethernet. Matrox Millenium II graphics card. New machine: Compaq AP400 qorkstation, Pentium II 400 processor. 2x SMART 2SL cntrollers, intrenal pair of 4.2GB drives as RAID-0. Nothing on 2nd controller (yet). Onboard symbios SCSI controller driving external hard discs. Onboard fxp0 ether to 100T hub. Second compaq fxp0 ether card with nothing attached (yet).Compaq braded video card - appears to be Matrox Millenium II. The external modem is a Courier V.Everything (flashed from a 33.6k courier). The drives are a9GB Wide drive, chained to a 9GB narrow drive. Both fairely old and in external enclosured. The wide-->narrow cable properly terminates the high byte and the second drive has a terminator attached. Any suggestions ? -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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