From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 12: 4:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from symbion.srrc.usda.gov (symbion.srrc.usda.gov [199.133.86.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC4837B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by symbion.srrc.usda.gov (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8LJ2Ul92261; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:02:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:02:30 -0500 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Michael Allman , BSD , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE! Message-ID: <20000921140230.B91788@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:49:49PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:49:49PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > Try a new power supply, too. This won't make you feel any better, but > I recently fought a system that I never found out what was causing > the problems. I had gone through many combinations of motherboards, > CPUs (both Intel and AMD, this was a Socket-7 system), power supplies, > ethernet cards, video cards, RAM, hard drives, CDROM drives, etc... > NOTHING was the same when I was done, yet I kept having the same > problems. It was almost as if the case itself was posessed (or maybe > I was cursed), as that was the only thing I hadn't changed. I knew > it was a hardware problem because the weirdness occurred regularly > in both FreeBSD and NT4 Server, even during initial installations > of FreeBSD or NT4. I finally gave up and just got an entirely new > system. I haven't had a single problem with it. I just had to chime in here. I thought I was the only one who was cursed. I had essentially the same situation as you described above. I finally bought a new case & power supply, motherboard & CPU. The motherboard I got was DOA. I got another one and it ran for about a month and then died. This was an Asus motherboard and Asus has a very good reputation. At this point I was even suspecting my UPS as the culprit. I ordered a different brand of motherboard (Tyan) and the system has been working for about a year now with zero downtime. The take home lesson: PC hardware can be flaky. -- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC Phone: (504) 286-4252 New Orleans, LA 70124 e-mail: gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message