From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 1 19:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com (teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com [139.134.5.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16A1437B68A for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Greg@fatcanary.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot25.domain0.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ea198254 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:24:02 +1000 Received: from WYBH-T-005-p-89-195.tmns.net.au ([203.54.89.195]) by mail0.bigpond.com (Claudes-All-New-MailRouter V2.8a 13/681225); 02 Jul 2000 12:24:01 Received: from thefridge (the-fridge.gwork.org.au [192.168.0.2]) by the-toaster.gwork.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA00499; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:02:52 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from Greg@FatCanary.com.au) Message-ID: <001201bfe3cc$6e1b9c40$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> Reply-To: "Greg Work" From: "Greg Work" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "Larry Rosenman" , References: <200006280311.e5S3BWb28882@lerami.lerctr.org> <003d01bfe3af$3c72c640$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> <20000702114422.Q18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:52:54 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem? > > > > ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with > > SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly. I know its not the memory - i have > > been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat. > > You mean it never discovered a problem? What software were you > running? Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98 It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i got a second machine > > > The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2 > > days no problems. Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's > > to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug > > them :( > > If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except > that things will be different each time. > > I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in > fact due to flaky hardware. Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I > have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it > helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-). the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a bios flash (it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :) ) /me is intregued G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message