Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 16:17:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: anyone have a memory test? Message-ID: <199609022017.QAA21812@shell.monmouth.com>
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Sorry for the repost -- if you've seen this twice... I bounced my last due to an aliases screw up -- Bill I've been fighting memory problems ever since I pulled out my motherboard and installed a new one. Unfortunately, the new one didn't work -- so I put back the old one. (The simms never came off it when it was pulled -- so I expected no problem... however, it's now sig-11, sig6 city. Dos based memory tests show nothing (I've got 20 meg... my best diag doesn't test past 16). FreeBSD boots, runs, and sig-11's occasionally during make world and heavy X stuff. I went from 20 meg to 8mb of 1mb simms -- same problem. I went to 16mb of 4mb simms -- same problem. I reseated and enabled and disabled the cache... same problem. I swapped in a DX2/66 to try to see if the problem would show up or go away with a CPU reseat/replacement. No luck. I'm waiting for the new motherboard -- and I have new 72 pin simms for it. (It's en route from the company as a swap with the bad one.) Anyone have a memory test recommendation that works short of a hardware memory test. I remember FreeBSD 1.5 pulled out errors on my wife's box that were causing crashes under OS/2 and SIG11's under Linux. I sure miss minicomputers with real memory controllers with memory address registers that latch parity errors and report the address. I sure miss BSD on a Vax that reported the ECC location and correction bits... Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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