Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:03:19 -0700 From: "Donald and Rosalyn Fast" <d_rfast@telus.net> To: "R Joseph Wright" <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Widespread panics on install of 4.0 -solved (at least partly) Message-ID: <000801bfc7ec$b14ebd40$9232e8d8@bc.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <20000526235539.A65933@manatee.mammalia.org>
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Joseph, When I bought the CPU, I had to install the fan. (Well I didn't - but they did not have any heat conducting tape or compound between fan and CPU). I have the CPU voltage set correctly. Maybe I should bump it up 0.1V. Would a big package install of GNOME plus something like A... or Enlight... count (lots of ftp files, lots of depedencines getting installed) as 'pushing it'? > -----Original Message----- > From: R Joseph Wright [mailto:rjoseph@mammalia.org] > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:56 PM > To: Donald and Rosalyn Fast > Subject: Re: Widespread panics on install of 4.0 -solved (at least > partly) > > > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 07:46:49PM -0700, Donald and Rosalyn Fast wrote: > > Thanks Jim, > > > > I changed the BIOS timing for memory to be less aggressive - still no success in installing. > > I removed case cover, and put a portable fan blowing over CPU this lowered CPU temp from > > 49 deg C to 34 deg C and MB temp from 35 deg C to 24 deg C and SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED. > > > > It is time for a small hardware upgrade of a new case and cooling fan(s). > > > > I then configured and browsed FreeBSD for 30 minutes until I got a panic when installing > > GNOME (after installing multiple dependencies, but not yet finished). > > (successfully ran fsck to fix the damage) > > > > 30 minutes is about twice as long as any previous use. So I think I am getting somewhere. > > > > thanks again, > > > > Donald Fast > > Make sure you have the voltage set correctly. I have a K6-450 and > discovered that AMD manufactured this chip with two voltage levels, > 2.2 and 2.4 volts. My motherboard manual said to set it at 2.2. > This caused me problems until I changed it to 2.4. Remove the heatsink > and read the correct voltage directly off the chip. > > After I changed mine to 2.4 volts, things got much better. However, > I think the cooling is still inadequate. It still panics when pushed, > almost inevitably whenever I try to compile a "big" X program, such as > Mozilla. > > Speaking of cooling systems, has anyone used a peltier cooler? I've > seen these things for sale, and if the advertisements are to be > believed, it could be just the thing to stabilize it for good. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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