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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:21:57 +0100
From:      "Lars. Tunkrans" <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net>
To:        Angie Ahl <angie@alphabox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.1 problems on AMD64 Athlon 3800 - crashes from day 1
Message-ID:  <454A3745.9020103@bredband.net>
In-Reply-To: <1B6DFE5B-A4D4-48B8-AD72-4256A2462804@alphabox.net>
References:  <1B6DFE5B-A4D4-48B8-AD72-4256A2462804@alphabox.net>

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Angie Ahl wrote:
>
> I'm waiting for some answers to exactly what chipsets on the 
> motherboard etc. Is there anything I should really check for if/when I 
> can get back into the box.
>
> Thanks very very much
>
> Angie

 Hi,   

  One thing  that I have experienced  myself  in  new   hardware   is 
substandard   SATA  cables.
One of my friends also resolved a situation where MS-Windows  would not 
install on a SATA disk
by changeing  the SATA cable. 
 I have a shuttle  chassie  with an Athlon64  3800 , 1 GB  RAM  and 
thee  Segate SATA  320 GB  drives.
this box  failed  mysteriously  and had unexplained HUNG situations.

After I changed  to  SATA-300  cables  with clip-locks  on the 
contactors  all problems  went away.

//Lars



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