From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Jun 16  9:13:15 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4490D37B431
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:13:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from attbi.com ([12.252.56.4]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com
          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP
          id <20020616161303.RMNZ20219.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@attbi.com>
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
          Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:13:03 +0000
Message-ID: <3D0CB916.9000003@attbi.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 10:13:10 -0600
From: Aaron J Siegel <Aaron.Siegel@attbi.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1
X-Accept-Language: en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Computer crashes and hard drive geometry
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Hello
         I purchased a computer in January of this year which as been 
nothing but a big headache. Every time I compile the kernel it crashes, 
or give a bunch of compiler errors.  The computer is a AMD XP +1500 
with, Epox 8kha, and the ram is a 256 MB Crucial DDR.  I have a 40 GB 
IBM hard drive setup with LBA geometry. Do I need to set the geometry to 
a extended INT13 mode? Could the hard drive be creating the problem?

I have tried everything I can think of; replaced the RAM, upgraded the 
bios, tried the video card in another computer, used a different hard 
drive(it appear to be a little more stable). I have moved the hard drive 
to a older computer, PII, 440BX, Promise 100TX IDE controller, there are 
no problems the computer, it can run for days without a glitch. I save 
the core but when I run gdb I receive the error: 
"/usr/var/crash4/vmcore.0": not in executable format: File format not 
recognized". Next I have a problem Iike this I will send the whole 
computer back not just components, let them deal with it.

Thank you
  Aaron
 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message