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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: My hardware loves 2.0 but doesn't like 2.1 Date: 17 Jan 1996 16:52:37 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4dj9gl$6re@helena.MT.net> References: <4cs961$m4j@Mercury.mcs.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4cs961$m4j@Mercury.mcs.com>, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > >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). It may be a motherboard problem then. Either that, or the memory isn't fine, and the replacement memory was also. >Symptom 2) went away when I got rid of the co-processor. What kind of co-processor. >Symptom 3) still shows up occasionally, Bad memory will *often* cause these sorts of errors. >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 ...? I doubt 2.1 very much, especially considering that the problems didn't show up until you added new hardware. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth