Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 20:09:27 -0500 (CDT) From: delerium@eagle.ais.net (Synaesthesia) To: walter@biostat.sph.unc.edu (Bruce Walter) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIG's 11 and 6... Message-ID: <m0ubGRb-000VyVC@eagle.ais.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960702094322.11123A-100000@onyx.bios.unc.edu> from "Bruce Walter" at Jul 2, 96 09:50:58 am
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[...] > HEAT! My pentium 120 was having the above problems. Switching out memory > would solve them for a day or two, but the problems would then start to > build up again. FINALLY I replaced the CPU fan and added a big waffle fan > in the front of the case and VOILA... No more SIG's for the last week. > Chances are that in the past the time involved in cracking the case and > swapping memory dropped the temp enough to alleviate the problem. I've got a Pentium 133 here running 2.2-960612-SNAP, and it too was experiencing more or less random Segmentation Faults, Bus Errors, and/or Illegal Instructions. This behavior persisted despite swapping SIMMs several times. I finally resolved this with a strange fix: though the CPU can run at 133MHz, I clocked it down to 120MHz via jumper settings on the motherboard. I haven't had any problems with it since. I wonder if my problem is actually heat-related as well? Reducing the CPU clock may simply cause the chip to run cooler. Anyone else have similar troubles, or other ideas? -- delerium@ais.net
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