Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 08:01:35 -0700 From: Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems compiling the kernel Message-ID: <199610091501.IAA11602@phobos.walker.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 1996 09:46:09 PDT."
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> Jonathan M. Bresler replied to what Brian Stewart wrote: > > > > All right, I just switched my FreeBSD (2.1.5) machine from a 386 to a 486. > > I yanked the hared drive from the 386 and put it in the 486. I also put 4 4 > > meg simms and > > 4 1 meg simms in. There are no post errors on bootup. > > are all the simms the same speed? > if so, try pulling all but 2 4MB simms > find two that work > then add another pair use stickers to mark those > that work > finally add the last pair > the goal is too identify the simms that are bad > and get rid of them > Isn't life grand? Back in The Good Ol' Days (tm), when all of the chips on your motherboard were socketed, we used to call this procedure "Easter Egging", as it was akin to finding a hidden Easter egg hidden by some diabolical entity. Just keep pulling chips, replace them with known good ones, until you find the one that makes the computer work again. Fixed quite a few Apple II's this way; I know *nothing* (barely) of electronics, but I could fix a computer! :-) keith.
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