From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 4:42:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2.sea.nwserv.com (web2.sea.nwserv.com [216.145.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EF037B9DB for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 04:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from localhost (jfreeze@localhost) by web2.sea.nwserv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id EAA77578; Sat, 27 May 2000 04:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 04:42:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jfreeze@web2.sea.nwserv.com To: Donald and Rosalyn Fast Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Widespread panics on install of 4.0 -solved (at least partly) In-Reply-To: <000001bfc785$ce4269e0$9232e8d8@bc.hsia.telus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Envelope-To: d_rfast@telus.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 May 2000, Donald and Rosalyn Fast wrote: > Thanks Jim, > > I changed the BIOS timing for memory to be less aggressive - still no success in installing. > I removed case cover, and put a portable fan blowing over CPU this lowered CPU temp from > 49 deg C to 34 deg C and MB temp from 35 deg C to 24 deg C and SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED. > > It is time for a small hardware upgrade of a new case and cooling fan(s). > > I then configured and browsed FreeBSD for 30 minutes until I got a panic when installing > GNOME (after installing multiple dependencies, but not yet finished). > (successfully ran fsck to fix the damage) > > 30 minutes is about twice as long as any previous use. So I think I am getting somewhere. > > thanks again, Wow, after lowering my clock speed, I didn't think that heating was that big of a problem. Glad to hear things are at least installing now. However, I think you are going to have to lower your cpu clock speed (ie the cpu multiplier) for this thing to work reliably. I am curious as to just how much. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message