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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!merlion.singnet.com.sg!ts900-1508.singnet.com.sg!daniel From: daniel@santeh.com.sg (Daniel Qiao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd and parity errors Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 01:00:31 Organization: Singapore Telecom Internet Service Lines: 26 Message-ID: <daniel.7.000101EC@santeh.com.sg> References: <3ubksg$rmv@agate.berkeley.edu> <3ufugq$7mc@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts900-1508.singnet.com.sg X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3ufugq$7mc@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) >Subject: Re: freebsd and parity errors >Date: 18 Jul 1995 11:22:34 +0200 >john doe #1 <jdoe@fusion.net> wrote: >>freebsd 2.0 gives me annoying parity errors quite a bit. 2.0.5 gives me >>them so early on in the install process that i cannot even install. none >>of my dos/win software seems to have a problem using the memory, and yet >>bsd seems to. i have 8 megs and an 8 meg swap drive, and it sometimes >>crashes with me doing fewer things than edit a couple of files in vi and >>logging in from another console. >dos/win doesn't count. Parity errors _are_ hardware. Relax your >memory timing, or swap your SIMMs. >Sorry, certainly not the kind of help you've expected to get... >-- >cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de > http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Try changing power supply. Your current PSU may not be stable enough?? Daniel Qiao