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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:12:48 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboot while CPU usage is high
Message-ID:  <37547700.680F3B38@3-cities.com>
References:  <199906012014.NAA20880@cup44ux.cup.hp.com>

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Ken Lui wrote:
> 
> > Great to hear.  This seems to be a common problem now.  I had a couple
> > people do this and their machines have become stable.  Seems like a lot
> > of marginal PC100 memory is out there.
> 
> I was told the other stick of SDRAM was not PC100, but this is my first
> PC that uses SDRAM. Seems like the BIOS/hardware/architecture isn't very
> smart about mixing different grades of SDRAM.

The problem gets worse with the 440bx chipset. I have been told that for
this chipset, you need 7/8ns PC-100 or CAS2. You will sometimes see
memory separated for the bx machines.

Kent

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