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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!symbios.com!southwind.net!complete.org!not-for-mail From: jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Sig 11 probs Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:38:37 -0600 Organization: Communications Centre (+1 316 367 8490) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4gvtkt$6n@complete.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: complete.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I'm still having some problems with Sig 11's appearing randomly in FreeBSD and I doubt that it is a bad hardware problem. I have been looking at my BIOS settings. The wait states are already maxed out (3 read, 2 write). As per the advice of another newsgroup reader, I disabled the Hidden Refresh option which seemed to help. There are several options in my BIOS that I do not know what they do. My BIOS is an AMI (American Megatrends) from 1993. I have no documentation: - Single ALE. An enable/disable. I don't even know what ALE stands for - Fast decode. Again, enable/disable. - AT bus speed. Has options like CLK/6 and CLK/5. - Cache pattern. Currently at 3-2-2-2. I have no idea what this sets. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A note on Single ALE. I tried enabling it (just as an experiment) and when I did so, the performance degredation under text mode DOS alone was noticeable when doing a DIR listing. I actually first noticed this performance hit when the system information box came up slower than usual. Thanks again! -- John Goerzen, programmer and owner | Freedom..liberty..justice..democracy| Communications Centre, Goessel, KS | ..limits on free spech on the Net...| Main e-mail: jgoerzen@complete.org | Which one doesn't belong? |