From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 20:26:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15765 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15753 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24212; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:23:20 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:22:41 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > I have been having problems with my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box. > I do not know why, but it is crashing down almost every hour!!! > [...] > I returned to version 2.2.6 and I have the same problem, but my file > systems remain healty. > > I suppose it has something to do with my computer itself and not with > the operating system. I suposse I have to custom something in my BIOS. > > DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ???? In most cases like yours (assuming no-conflicts + std Pentium chip) it's to do with bad memory. [Check out another thread just the past few days very similar to yours]. You'll have to replace bank-by-bank to find the bad SIMMS. Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message