From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 10:30:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D8137B405 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9D1943F85 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:30:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 60630 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2003 18:30:45 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2003 18:30:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:30:44 -0500 (EST) From: jaime@snowmoon.com To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <3E834080.3010902@mac.com> Message-ID: <20030327132506.B60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,NO_REAL_NAME, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_NJABL,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, X_NJABL_OPEN_PROXY autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panics, lots of them X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:30:49 -0000 On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: > jaime@snowmoon.com wrote: > > I have a box that has been having problems for months. > > Originally, there were problems that were corrected by replacing the > > mother board. > > What kind of problems did you have? And what hardware? It's quite > possible to damage the CPU or even the power supply if the motherboard > fails badly enough. At the moment, i.e. with the new mother board, RAM, and cable, It has: P3 600MHz 256MB RAM (was 1 stick, now 2) Tyan mother board (Trinity 400) SCSI PCI card using sym0 driver (can't remember which card) 4 SCSI 18GB hard drives 1 SCSI DDS-4 DAT tape drive 1 EIDE 10GB hard drive 1 ethernet interface using fxp driver (Interl EtherExpress Pro/100) 1 PCI VGA card (can't remember what kind) 1 SCSI cable 1 80-pin EIDE cable > There is memtest and cpuburn in the ports; try running those and see > whether you can get the system to crash. Just to verify before I run these programs in the middle of the work day: The purpose of these programs is to try to crash the system, right? :) Thanks, Jaime