From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 11:22:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FB816A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0CF43F93 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8MILULY085456; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:21:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h8MILUeh085455; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:21:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:21:30 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030922182130.GA663@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <200309221425.h8MEPWY68417@alogis.com> <20030922171115.GB45499@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030922171115.GB45499@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! cc: jsmith@drexel.edu cc: Holger Kipp cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: faulty memory (was Re: Gcc 3.2.2 vs gcc 3.2.3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:22:56 -0000 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:11:15PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:25:27PM +0000, Holger Kipp wrote: > > Justin Smith (jsmith@drexel.edu) wrote:=20 > > >I'm running a P4 2.4 Ghz processor with 512meg of ram. > > > > > >I've had the problem of getting signal 11 and signal 4 when I make > > >buildworld and buildkernel. > > > > > >I tested my system with memtest86 (for several hours) and it says > > >everything is OK. > >=20 > > We had similar problems once. It turned out to be a 'lucky' combination= of > > good mainboard and good memory that were slightly incompatible. > >=20 > > memtest86 might not detect this, but make buildworld will. If you don't > > get the errors at the same location every time, it might be the same > > issue. We found out after contacting both the mainboard and the memory > > chip vendors. >=20 > Same experience here, also on P4, with DDR400 memory. Asus mainboard, > with memory from the Asus qualified memory list. Did not work worth sh*, > at least not with memory at DDR400 speeds. Other memory fixed is perfectl= y. >=20 > Go figure.. I just had this problem, P4 on Gigabyte mainboard, DDR400 memory, 2 DIMMs of 512 MB each. With a single DIMM (both DIMMs tested) memtest didn't find anything and the machine was rock stable, but in any combo of the 2 DIMMs, dual channel or not, the machine would lock up / throw gcc ICE everytime. When I ran memtest on the machine with both DIMMs in, it would consistently show errors in one 512 half though, and so I returned the one 'faulty' DIMM and all was well. Talk about strange... --Stijn --=20 There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are 'Why are people born?', 'Why do they die?', and `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?' -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/bz2qY3r/tLQmfWcRAh+PAKCNHzTvCxsRZ3Qdw+2SAzpFCIn9sACeP2Uk OL+zl8IwFmP0G0mCo1AoAm4= =feWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--