Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:33:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Message-ID: <20030305193352.GA90506@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200303051859.h25Ix5HQ003290@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> References: <3E66472D.8010407@potentialtech.com> <200303051859.h25Ix5HQ003290@himinbjorg.ttsg.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0500, Tuc wrote: > > > > It could be incompatible hardware (i.e. mostly compatible hardware) that > > works most of the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, the > > vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. > > > Its been working reliably since last May in 4.5/4.6/4.7.... Then > the hard drive failed, put a fresh install, and then it was reliable until > I was portupgrading X. What could the X system do so horrible that would > make the screen just go black and then the splash page happen? It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers, ...). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is most likely to fail. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZlEfWry0BWjoQKURAhkAAKDviaXPWmoZ8dXRo7HQzz6EpOj3KwCfVTa9 YT+iyyOmzSTnK60scXteiZU= =fykE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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