Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
On Sunday, 2 July 2000 at 11:52:54 +0930, Greg Work wrote:
>>> Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem?
>>>
>>> ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with
>>> SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly. I know its not the memory - i have
>>> been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat.
>>
>> You mean it never discovered a problem? What software were you
>> running?
>
> Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98
> It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i
> got a second machine
OK, this seems to contradict your previous statements ("just turned
into a BSD box").
>>> The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2
>>> days no problems. Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's
>>> to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug
>>> them :(
>>
>> If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except
>> that things will be different each time.
>>
>> I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in
>> fact due to flaky hardware. Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I
>> have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it
>> helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-).
>
> the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a
> bios flash (it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :) )
After a flash, or until after a flash? Check the BIOS settings; maybe
they're overstressing the memory.
Greg
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Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
On Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 21:21:56 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > (mutilated description of hardware-related problems with AMD K6-2 deleted) > hmm > I can't (the AMD K6-2 is back at the computer store), as > I said, that computer now has an Intel P-III 600E in it :-). > > The tech's at IMS did say that AMD did admit to "some problem" with > the K6-2's, so I'm not sure that an earlier FreeBSD will help... There have been "some problems" with all processors. Without any more accurate description, this statement doesn't help. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 2 July 2000 at 11:47:51 +0930, Greg Work wrote: > (mutilated description of hardware-related problems with AMD K6-2 deleted) > hmm > > how easy is it to install an earlier 3.x ? (3.0-RELEASE --> > 3.2-RELEASE) it would be interesting to see if that fixes the > problem I don't think that would be very interesting. All versions of FreeBSD run with the K6-2. > unfortunately - i dont have any spare HD's to stick it on - or i > would try it > > i tell you what - this was *REALLY* getting me bugged - i thought i had > fried the CPU / MB somehow... It's not that serious. I'd guess memory problems, or probably BIOS settings. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
> > Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem? > > > > ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with > > SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly. I know its not the memory - i have > > been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat. > > You mean it never discovered a problem? What software were you > running? Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98 It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i got a second machine > > > The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2 > > days no problems. Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's > > to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug > > them :( > > If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except > that things will be different each time. > > I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in > fact due to flaky hardware. Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I > have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it > helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-). the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a bios flash (it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :) ) /me is intregued G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
