From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 9:50:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F5E37B423 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14427; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:50:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:50:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: BSD , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! In-Reply-To: <20000920093316.X9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG freebsd-bugs removed from Cc.... On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. Yes, I neglected to mention that. Overheating can cause the same symptoms that overclocking the processor does. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message