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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        mike grommet <mgrommet@ns.insolwwb.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with EPoX VIA motherboard?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222051330.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.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:

> 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.

When reporting kernel panics, it's *very* important to include all output
from the panic.  The page fault panic is very generic; we need the
addressing information to lock down what function the panic is originating
from.

> 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)
> 
> Basically this started up with FreeBSD 2.2.6... everything seemed fine at 
> first, everything went as planned.  I decided to cvsup to the 2.2.7 release,
> I downloaded the cvsup binary from the ports and insatlled it.
> I started the cvsup and it crapped out.
> 
> I tried several other things, and it crapped out randomly there too...

Without knowing the details I can't comment on what's going on.  If you
have the time I'd get your RAM and processor cache checked out.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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