At 09:53 AM 3/6/2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote:
> > >No. Like described in my original post, the crashes occur with
> > >no warning at all. The system just goes down as when pulling the
> > >power cord, and if the raid superblocks don't mess up to bad it
> > >comes back up again.
> >
> >
> > Could have a bad power supply, and the other item is the Motherboards
> > on-board cache.
> > Epox had a run of bad/marginal cache chips (had to get 2
> > replacement boards
> > before they sent me a good one).
>
>Power-supply: Like stated before, I changed ALL hardware except the disks.
>That means I also changed the power-supply.
>
>Cache: Is there any way to isolate and determine errors in the cache? The
>problem now is that I don't know *what* keeps on biting me. If I could only
>narrow it down to find the exact cause!
To Eliminate Cache, just go into Bios setup during boot and disable
external cache.
If the crashes disappear, they were caused by the cache. Also, what CPU
are you running? If it's an AMD, make sure that you disable caching of the
BIOS in the setup also.
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