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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:50:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        BSD <bsd@shell-server.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Constant panics on 4.1-STABLE!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009201148280.12282-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <20000920093316.X9141@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> [000920 09:01] wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, BSD wrote:
> > 
> > > 	Thanks for any help!  Oh, and these panics can be as close as 12
> > > minutes and as far apart as 8 days (not the documented ones, but the ones
> > > I have had up to this point, with all 3 DIMMs in place).  You can see the
> > > uptimes for the documented panics at the bottom of the JPEGs.
> > 
> > I hate to tell you this, but this is most certainly a memory problem.
> > Get some memory that has been tested and approved by your motherboard
> > manufacturer for that board, and to be double-sure, make it ECC memory
> > and then enable ECC in the motherboard's BIOS.  If you STILL have
> > problems after that, then you can start blaming the problem on
> > something else.  The ONLY other time I have had problems like this is
> > when overclocking the processor.  You aren't overclocking those
> > processors are you?
> 
> Another problem can be heating issues, it doesn't matter how good
> your case's cooling is when the surrounding tempatures are too high.

Yes, I neglected to mention that.  Overheating can cause the same
symptoms that overclocking the processor does.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )




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