From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 8: 9: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.ge.com (ns2.ge.com [192.35.39.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7BB15136 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:08:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bolte@gsao.gso.med.ge.com) Received: from thomas.ge.com (thomas.ge.com [3.47.28.21]) by ns2.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11408 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 11:08:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from gemed.med.ge.com (gemed.med.ge.com [3.7.12.4]) by thomas.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01947; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 11:08:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from gsao.gso.med.ge.com (gsao.gso.med.ge.com [3.70.204.2]) by gemed.med.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA13070; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:08:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from cirque.gso.med.ge.com (cirque [3.70.204.36]) by gsao.gso.med.ge.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27143; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:08:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from cirque (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cirque.gso.med.ge.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19012; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:08:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200001041608.KAA19012@cirque.gso.med.ge.com> To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Scott.Bolte@med.ge.com Subject: Re: "panic: page fault" when loading FreeBSD 3.3 on an Athlon system Reply-To: "Scott Bolte" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <19008.947002127.1@cirque> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:08:47 -0600 From: Scott Bolte Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary, Updating the 10/18/99 BIOS to the much more mature (by two whole weeks) 11/01/99 BIOS helped, but did not completely eliminate the panics. However, reverting back to the "failsafe mode" BIOS settings as well did the trick. I was then able to complete an installation of FreeBSD 3.3. Later this week I'll try some stress tests to check the stability of the CPU/MB combination. Thanks, Scott ____ On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 22:25:04 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: / Scott Bolte writes: | > The constants are the Athlon 550 CPU, the sole PC100 128MB | > SDRAM DIMM (with or without ECC enabled), the ASUS K7M | > motherboard, and the Antec 300W power supply. Swapping the 4 | > core components mentioned above will be very difficult. | > | > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be wrong, or how | > I can obtain more information? | | I know someone who has exactly the same MB and experienced exactly the same | problem. | | His solution was to burn the latest BIOS from the ASUS site before trying | to reinstall FreeBSD. Try it out. | | --- | Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message