Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:01:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu> To: mike grommet <mgrommet@ns.insolwwb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with EPoX VIA motherboard? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980820115652.21618A-100000@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.980820002600.19459A-100000@ns.insolwwb.net>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, mike grommet wrote: > Hi guys. > > I recently upgraded to a new motherboard / cpu / memory / video card > and now that I am trying to run freebsd, I am getting rather random page > faults out of the blue. > > Heres the run down: > > EPOX mainboard, socket 7 with AGP (100 Mhz bus) > 64 Megs of SDRAM, a single DIMM (100 Mhz) > AMD k6-2 / 300 (100 Mhz Bus) > Ultra DMA IDE drive, 6.4 gigs... > A Diamond Viper 330 AGP. (note, not doing any graphics here. page faults > are occuring in text mode) > > <SNIP> > So, while I realize the above config is fairly new and all, I wanted to > see if you guys have had any problems with the above hardware. Heck, > at this point I'm not trying to do anything special, and I figured what > the heck, I would give it a try. > Well, I have an EOPX motherboard like yours, 64 Megs SDRAM, and AMD K6-2 300 Mhz (100 bus) running FreeBSD without a problem. Are you sure that your memory supports 100 Mhz? It should be 8 ns speed, not all SDRAM is. I'd try running it at a 66 Mhz bus speed for awhile and see if the problem goes away. If it does, it's your memory. > Thanks for your help and insight. -- Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Godfrey godfreja@acm.cs.uwec.edu FreeBSD - The Power to Serve ---> http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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