> > The symptoms you describe sound like classic hardware problems, > > however, I see a couple things worthy of note in your dmesg: > > > > > ----- > > > OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > > > cpu0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 64KB L2 cache) > > > 1.61 GHz > > > cpu0: > > > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE > > > > No idea why, but I've seen a number of AMD systems of that > > vintage which were temperamental about their RAM. Wasn't that > > the RAM was bad...but the system bus timing was off in some > > way. > > > > Curiously, these machines had more-than-usual amounts of clock > > speed control, and they seemed to settle down by cranking down > > the clock speed a tad. You won't miss it, really. > > I have set the front side bus to be 200, instead of 266 and > am re-running the memory tests.
I was still getting errors after decreasing the fsb speed. I modified the bios as follows: - sdram timing by spd enabled - auto detect pci clock enabled - clk spread spectrum enabled I retested the memory, ran it overnight using memtest86+. No errors. I don't know which of the above fixed the problem. However, it is not causing any memory errors now. Thanks so much for the pointers. JohnM -- john mendenhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] surf utopia internet services