From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 9:33:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428F937B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8KGXG305922; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:33:16 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chris Dillon Cc: BSD , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! Message-ID: <20000920093316.X9141@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:00:59AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Chris Dillon [000920 09:01] wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, BSD wrote: > > > Thanks for any help! Oh, and these panics can be as close as 12 > > minutes and as far apart as 8 days (not the documented ones, but the ones > > I have had up to this point, with all 3 DIMMs in place). You can see the > > uptimes for the documented panics at the bottom of the JPEGs. > > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem. > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS. If you STILL have > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on > something else. The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is > when overclocking the processor. You aren't overclocking those > processors are you? Another problem can be heating issues, it doesn't matter how good your case's cooling is when the surrounding tempatures are too high. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message