From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 21:37:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00283 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00274 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA17623; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:51:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604190421.NAA17623@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: reboots To: vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR (Pedro A M Vazquez) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:51:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199604181714.RAA13641@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> from "Pedro A M Vazquez" at Apr 18, 96 05:14:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro A M Vazquez stands accused of saying: > > Hello > We assembled a PC with the following parts: > > - Soyo Motherboard (triton chipset) with on board 256k write back > cache. We use these boards. They're good. > - P133 > - 2x8M EDO RAM What speed on the RAM? Note that EDO is a waste of money. > FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE installed without any problems but when > we try to build a new kernel the system reboots as if someone pressed the > reset buton. After trying out with some programs we found a very little > program like flops (a simple FPU benchmark) does the same thing, the system > reboots before the first result is printed. We have played with iozone > with several file/block sizes and no problems ocurrs. This seems something > related to hardware but we can't find out where to look for to ask the > vendor to replace the defective parts. Could someone sugest tests/diagnosis > or something to help us? I'd be starting with your memory, and possibly cache. Make sure you have the BIOS set to automatically configure memory/cache timings too. Note that we have had problems with several brands of memory in these boards, we currently use Panasonic 60ns parts. You will want to upgrade to 2.1-STABLE as soon as you get this guy running, as the 2940 driver in 2.1-R has some problems. > Pedro -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[