Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:39:16 -0700 From: Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic) Message-ID: <dc9ba044050318083969be1291@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050317175913.GT91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com> <dc9ba04405031612286f51890f@mail.gmail.com> <4238F9A7.5050000@bigfoot.com> <20050317175913.GT91771@hub.freebsd.org>
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I have had odd behavior like you are describing with cheap motherboards. I ran all of the memory tests etc, and everything passed with flying colors. Despite passing all of the tests I could throw at the hardware, windows 2000 was very unstable. We ultimately ended up replacing the board. On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:13 +0000, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:43PM -0800, Jean Lagarde wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely > > hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the > > suggestion about disabling ACPI however. > > > > To address some of the other comments, that exact CPU-mobo-memory > > configuration worked fine running Win2000 for many years, so I doubt it > > is the problem per se. > > Doesn't rule out bugs in the ACPI support of your motherboard. Some > low-quality motherboards only implement an approximation to the ACPI > spec to a level that gets windows to run. > > Kris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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