From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 1 19:35:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D099137B580 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19613; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:05:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:05:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Work Cc: Larry Rosenman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000702120537.T18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200006280311.e5S3BWb28882@lerami.lerctr.org> <003d01bfe3af$3c72c640$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> <20000702114422.Q18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> <001201bfe3cc$6e1b9c40$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <001201bfe3cc$6e1b9c40$0200a8c0@gwork.org.au> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 2 July 2000 at 11:52:54 +0930, Greg Work wrote: >>> Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem? >>> >>> ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with >>> SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly. I know its not the memory - i have >>> been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat. >> >> You mean it never discovered a problem? What software were you >> running? > > Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98 > It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i > got a second machine OK, this seems to contradict your previous statements ("just turned into a BSD box"). >>> The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2 >>> days no problems. Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's >>> to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug >>> them :( >> >> If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except >> that things will be different each time. >> >> I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in >> fact due to flaky hardware. Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I >> have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it >> helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-). > > the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a > bios flash (it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :) ) After a flash, or until after a flash? Check the BIOS settings; maybe they're overstressing the memory. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message