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From: ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Protected Mode Lockup Problems--Please Help.
Date: 5 Feb 1994 22:04:36 -0600
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Hello all!
  A friend of mine is having troubles with his machine.  Both Linux and
FreeBSD 1.0 will sporadically lock up his system.  Also, under DOS,
DJGPP will occasionally lock up and QEMM will often do a cold reboot.
I know it isn't a software problem, because it is shared by everything,
so it must be either hardware or firmware.  He is running a 386DX-40 with
AMI BIOS v 1.0.55a.

On boot, FreeBSD reports:

FreeBSD 1.0.2 (GENERICAH) #0: Sun Nov 14 18:22:24 PST 1993
  root@gndrsh.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERICAH
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
real mem  = 8384512
avail mem = 7000064
using 127 buffers containing 1044480 bytes of memory
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
pc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
pc0: type color
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type <16450>
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type <16450>
sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 on isa
sio2: type <16550A>
sio3 not found at 0x2e8
lpt0 not found at 0x3bc
lpa0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa
lpa1 not found at 0x278
fd0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fd0: unit 0 type 1.2MB 5.25in
fd0: unit 1 type 1.44MB 3.5in
wd0 not found at 0x1f0
ahb0 not found
aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11 
aha0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
aha0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1
aha0 targ 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU M2624F-512      0404>
sd0: 496MB (1015812 total sec), 1429 cyl, 11 head, 64 sec, bytes/sec 512
wt0 not probed due to irq conflict with sio2 at 5
mcd0 not found at 0x300
ed0 not probed due to irq conflict with sio2 at 5
ed1 not probed due to irq conflict with sio2 at 5
ie0 not found at 0x360
is0 not found at 0x280
npx0 at 0xf0-0xff irq 13 on motherboard
biomask 840 ttymask 3a netmask 3a
changing root device to sd0a

A relatively detailed list of the BIOS settings follow:
--Basic CMOS Setup
640K Base Memory
7168K Extended Memory

--Advanced CMOS Setup
Typematic Rate Programming: Disabled
Typematic Rate Delay: 500
Typematic Rate: 15

Above 1MB memory test: Disabled
Cache: Enabled

Fast Gate A20 option: Enabled

Video ROM Shadow    C000,16K   :  Enabled
  "    "    "       C400,16K   :  Enabled
Adapter ROM Shadow  C800,16K   :  Disabled
   "     "    "     CC00,16K   :  Disabled
   "     "    "     D000,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     D400,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     D800,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     DC00,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     E000,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     E400,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     E800,16K   :  Disabled
   "	 "    "     EC00,16K   :  Disabled
System ROM Shadow   F000,16K   :  Enabled

Boot Sector Virus Protection   :  Disabled

--Advanced Chipset Setup
Hidden Refresh:    Enabled
Keyboard Reset Control:	Disabled
AT Cycle Wait State:	Disabled
Memory Read Wait State: 0 W/S
Memory Write Wait State:0 W/S
Cache Read Wait State:  2-1-1-1
Cache Write Wait State: 0 W/S
Non-Cacheable Block-1 Size: Disabled
Non-Cacheable Block-1 Base: 0 KB
Non-Cacheable Block-2 Size: Disabled
Non-Cacheable Block-2 Base: 0 KB
Cacheable RAM address range: 8M
Video BIOS Cacheable:    YES



Thanks in advance,
-Chris


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Christopher L. Mikkelson               ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu
Student, Menomonie High School         ap713@yfn.ysu.edu
	Desperately in search of a Non-Channel-One School...