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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:1289 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:49096 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!iocgate!dfr From: dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Subject: Problems upgrading to 16M Sender: news@ioc.co.uk Message-ID: <DFR.93Apr2113836@rhino.ioc.co.uk> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 11:38:35 GMT Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: rhino.ioc.co.uk Organization: Intelligent Office Company Ltd. I just upgraded my 486DX33 system from 8M to 16M of ram and I am having problems. I am running 386bsd-0.1 + patchkit-0.2.1 + keycap-0.1.1 + julians scsi drivers and the system was very stable before the upgrade. I have used the same kernel binary on a 486DX266 with 16M of ram with no problems. Basically, since the upgrade, the machine is prone to spontaneously reboot when it is being worked fairly hard in 386bsd. Most recently it crashed while trying to compile tif_fax3.c from the xv-2.21 distribution (which can take upto 30M of virtual memory and consequently gives the memory system a good workout). I thought I had fixed the problem after I removed the SIMMS and replaced them in a different order but it seems to have come back. I ran a couple of DOS memory test programs. One of them (ramtest from Brown Bag software) locked up the machine completely about 3% into its extended memory test but had no problems at all with the expanded memory test. The other (testext by J.M.Cyr) ran all night with no errors. It seems likely that I have a hardware problem here but I guess it could be 386bsd. Does anyone have any ideas? I don't want to mess about getting my dealer to replace the memory if it isn't going to fix the problem. -- Doug Rabson, IOC Ltd. | Email: dfr@ioc.co.uk Phone: +44 81 528 9864 | drabson@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: +44 81 528 9878 |