From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 07:07:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08669 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:07:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08663 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:07:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 102zDk-0002GM-00; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:07:05 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA04005; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:06:58 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08355; Wed, 20 Jan 99 15:06:57 GMT Message-Id: <36A5F0FE.50361C50@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:06:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: RTC BIOS diagnostic error 17 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Alan J. Flavell" wrote: > > Although my newly built freeBSD system (on an elderly 486 PC) seems to > be performing in accordance with expectations, I'm still noticing this > oddity at every startup: > > RTC BIOS diagnostic error 17 > > I hadn't found anything definite about this in FAQs or mail archives, > but there was some indication it might point to a dead motherboard > battery. Which would have been at least plausible, as the PC in > question was quite old (but in DOS its real time clock looked OK). > Anyhow, I tried replacing the motherboard battery, but it hasn't made > any difference. > > Is this a matter that I should be concerned about, or not? > I'm inclined to think not. I get an "error" worded something like "Basemem (xxxxxx) != BIOS RTC mem (yyyyyyy); using BIOS value" where "xxxxxx" and "yyyyyy" are numbers of bytes, both figures being around 64MB, which is the memory I have installed. I'm not at home right now so I can't get the exact wording, but I have had it with all versions of FreeBSD, 2.2.[578], that I've run on this PC. The message I get is coming from FreeBSD, the wording of yours sounds like it's a BIOS message. I've got a Gigabyte GA-586TX m/b, K6-233, 64MB, Award 4.51PGM BIOS. The message seems harmless. > thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message