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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: My hardware loves 2.0 but doesn't like 2.1 Date: 8 Jan 1996 17:25:53 -0600 Organization: TundraWare Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4cs961$m4j@Mercury.mcs.com> Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com My FreeBSD system has always been rock-solid and dependable. I recently installed 2.1 and strange things began to happen. Three noteable symptoms: 1) System reboots randomly (several times a day) 2) cc blows out with because of Signal 4 and Signal 6 errors 3) I periodically get an error to the effect that my host adapter (Adaptec 1542B) has timed out and that a page of VM cannot be swapped in. The base system is a 486SLC clone. When I installed 2.1 I added 8 Megs of RAM to the existing RAM (for a total of 16 Megs) and a math co-processor. Symptom 1) went away when I removed the additional memory (the memory itself is fine, I tried replacing that first). Symptom 2) went away when I got rid of the co-processor. Symptom 3) still shows up occasionally, My sense of all this is that I have developed a flakey motherboard (possible) or that 2.1 has a latent crawling thing or two in it (unlikely but also possible). Any comment for you all in netland ...? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk / tundra@tundraware.com