Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:38:54 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Jerry Bell" <jerrybell@ili.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Random and frequent reboots and lockups with 3.0 Message-ID: <199811200340.WAA26391@laker.net>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:29:54 -0500, Jerry Bell wrote: >Bad DMI table checksum! This error message was in your dmesg. How long has this been occurring ? AFAIK, the DMI table is a table that the BIOS uses to communicate info about PNP devices in the system. I would pull a daughter card and see if the BIOS updates the DMI and corrects the checksum. I suspect the problem may be caused by bogus data in the table being used by FreeBSD in spite of the checksum error. If that's the case, it indicates a bug in FreeBSD, in that it should NOT use the data if it detects a checksum... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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