Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Mark Hannon <epamha@epa.ericsson.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au> Subject: Re: DOS hang causes FreeBSD boot Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960328214240.576A-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <315B4F21.7B0A@epa.ericsson.se>
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Mark Hannon wrote: > Hi all, > > You may remember a couple of earlier messages I sent on this > list two weeks ago re: strange hangs, reboots, SIGBUS etc after > upgrading to a PCI, AMD4/120 Hippo15 motherboard, Tseng ET4000/W32 > video, Western Digital 1.6GB EIDE hard disk. > > Well, things have settled down now - this has been the upgrade > from hell. Everything went wrong! One of my old hard-disks > started playing up and acting flaky and has been removed, this was at > least one of the problems. > > The new harddisk I purchased had problems (soft & hard errors > reading) and has now been replaced. > > My old 30 pin SIMMs (via 30->72 pin converters) have been replaced > with new 72 pin SIMMs. > > Finally the BIOS settings have been changed to run the PCI > bus at 20 MHz instead of 40 Mhz. > > Now I have a system which runs FreeBSD reliably. I have tried > to push the machine over (heavy compilation under X with lots > of network traffic) and it seems to be running fine. > > BUT if I run DOS and use it to play games (why else?) I have > seen some strange things. IndycarII runs pretty well but > occasionaly it crashes with a 'Page Fault'. > > Upon rebooting to FreeBSD I usually get a hung system when > the 'routed' daemon starts up, occasionally the system waits > until 'Clearing /tmp' before hanging, and once or twice it has > booted, started X and then crashed after about 30 seconds. > The kernel panic in this case was a page fault. > > This is repeatable, a cold-start doesn't help either. The > only thing that seems to help is to leave the machine powered > down for several minutes before making a cold start. > > Any ideas? What kind of problem could live through a cold-start? > Wow... looks like you've done a lot of troubleshooting and hair pulling. In answer to your last question, a corrupted CMOS could live thorough a cold start. You can reset that by moving a jumper temporarily on your motherboard and then back. Check your manual for more specific info. ---- || Shoppers Network BEST PRICES, FULLY x86 COMPATIBLE & FAST!!! || 2022 Taraval Street #10560 NexGen benchmarks available on our WWW site || San Francisco, CA 94116 Email - info@shoppersnet.com | ------------------------------> WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com -------------------------------> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping
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