Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:04:05 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem Message-ID: <20051026180405.GP69015@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <35de0c300510252205t1af77e1dmc950c08c1e37495@mail.gmail.com> References: <616C3CA2-AC7C-4688-B97F-35911A6C270B@syz.com> <35de0c300510252205t1af77e1dmc950c08c1e37495@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > ... > You didn't mention, have you run Dell diagnostics on the machine to > rule out hardware issues? While those diagnostics may well demostrate that a problem exists, the lack of a problme is not demonstrated by a machine passing all diagnostics. In particular, on a previous Dell i5000e laptop, it was not until 8 days before the warranty expired that I discovered conclusive evidence that the (DB-9M) serial port did not work at all. This, despite passing Dell's diagnostics with flying colors. And this was because the diagnostics -- from what I can guess -- did not attempt to actually transmit or receive data via the serial port. So: by all means, use the diagnostics, but use a suitably-sized "grain of salt" in evaluating the results. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Prediction is difficult, especially if it involves the future. -- Niels Bohr See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for public key.
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