From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 09:04:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13218 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13204 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-121.laker.net [208.0.233.21]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA20663; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:03:05 -0400 Message-Id: <199809021603.MAA20663@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Quintin Oliver" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:07:03 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sysintall keeps dumping core :( Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:34:52 +0100 (BST), Quintin Oliver wrote: >I can change the memory in the machine, but I'm not sure why?? Because you want to troubleshoot the problem, and it's better to spend your money on memory to troubleshoot it, rather than a dubious diagnostic program. But you are, of course, free to ignore my advice 8o) >when I booted >Quake on the machine it would fall over (dump core) - at first I thought >it was lack of memory, I then ran Quake on a p100 with 16meg of RAM nearly >half the specs of the previous machine, it run's Quake fine. Futher more, >many of times Linux would kick the error 'ide0: reset' it only ever >happened on this machine - there must be something wrong with it?? If changing the memory doesn't fix it, i'd disable the onboard ide and put in another ide card, hey they're cheap. I looked at your dmesg output and I didn't see any interrupt conflicts. Pretty standard stuff there... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message