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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: signal 11
Message-ID:  <20030731125135.E77421-100000@wrongcrowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030731190138.8407C37B405@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Suggestions? If you think it's marginal HW, do you have any
>suggestions on how to test and determine the culprit?

I would approach it this way:

- Wiggle all cables, reseat all components (you never know...)
- Check CPU cooling (I had CPU-related sig 11 crashes once myself)
- If CPU cooling is OK, try underclocking the CPU; if it is marginal this
may make it stable, and then you will know.
- Swap in a different power supply (a flaky PS can do all KIND of weird
things.)
- Swap in different RAM (or test RAM with memtest86)

If you can rule out CPU, RAM, PS... post a followup.

Good luck!




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