Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:40:18 +0800 From: S H A N <shanali@singnet.com.sg> To: Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Computer crashes and hard drive geometry Message-ID: <20020617124018.GD3349@singapura.singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <3D0CB916.9000003@attbi.com> References: <3D0CB916.9000003@attbi.com>
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other than the fact that what you wrote down seems nothing but some murphy law at its best :) what you can do is the following: - run u'r box barebone... (Without any of the superduper sound/nic/modem/dvd/usb/blah blah stuff you might have bought take them out of the box) - adopt failsafe/default bios setting - before trying out freebsd see how does the combination works with say on some win stuff (win98 perhaps??) - play around... install apps/browse web/play sound/games etc etc... get the feel - if it still sucks.. then bad luck!! if it helps then buy me candies ;) infact then you can carry on to play with bsd etc.. rgds, On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:13:10AM -0600, Aaron J Siegel wrote: > 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 -- S H A N To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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