Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:24:17 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <19990323102417X.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:32:28 %2B0930 (CST)" <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903232326450.28093-100000@bragg> References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903232326450.28093-100000@bragg>
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Sounds like a NMI generated by memory parity errors or motherboard malfunction. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Spontaneous reboots Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:32:28 +0930 (CST) > For about the past week I've been getting spontaneous reboots on my machine. > As far as I can tell, there's no obvious common connection - most recently my > box was under load at the time, but the time before that all I did was move > the mouse (shades of Windows :-) and nothing else much was running. > > This does only seem to happen when I'm using the machine - after a few hours, > a reboot is pretty much guaranteed (sounds like a resource leak of some kind > to me). Beyond that, I don't know. My kernel and machine config haven't > changed recently. > > Has anyone else been seeing this? What kind of information would help to > narrow the problem down? > > Kris > > ----- > The Feynman problem-solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem > 2. Think real hard > 3. Write down the solution > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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