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Date:      Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:52:54 +0930
From:      "Greg Work" <Greg@FatCanary.com.au>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
Message-ID:  <001201bfe3cc$6e1b9c40$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au>
References:  <200006280311.e5S3BWb28882@lerami.lerctr.org> <003d01bfe3af$3c72c640$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> <20000702114422.Q18213@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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> > Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem?
> >
> > ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with
> > SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly.  I know its not the memory - i have
> > been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat.
>
> You mean it never discovered a problem?  What software were you
> running?

Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98

It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i
got a second machine

>
> > The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2
> > days no problems.  Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's
> > to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug
> > them :(
>
> If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except
> that things will be different each time.
>
> I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in
> fact due to flaky hardware.  Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I
> have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it
> helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-).

the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a bios flash
(it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :)  )

/me is intregued

G.



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