Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:58:12 +0000 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com>, "Jaco H. van Tonder" <freebsd-questions@premsoft.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 865 probs Message-ID: <200311131958.12823.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB29C5C.6090803@circlesquared.com> References: <3FB20370.7060807@circlesquared.com> <099401c3a939$322ac680$3635a8c0@jaco> <3FB29C5C.6090803@circlesquared.com>
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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 8:47 pm, Peter Risdon wrote: > Jaco, > > Thanks for this. > > Jaco H. van Tonder wrote: > >For what its worth, I had a lot of problems on the I865P board, and It > >boiled down to memory corruption. > >The machine had lots of "random" crashes, meanng that they were not > > occuring when I do something specific. > >The machine startted to panic as soon as the load got high. > >I took out the memory, and placed it into another slot and the machine is > >cruising along happily now. > > I played with the memory slots as soon as the problems started, and > found memtest would sometimes throw up huge numbers of errors, and > sometimes none at all. FWIW slot 1 was the worst. But I suspect, no more > than that, some other problem as well. I've seen this behavior from memtest. Using the menu to restart usually fixes. The bogus errors are easy to spot. > > >The other questions is what is the date of the -CURRENT tree that is > > giving this problems? I can recall quite a few problems, which were > > fixed, that could cause this problem. > > Nov 10. I ran cvsup at about 9:00am GMT. > > Peter Risdon. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ian j hart http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031016
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