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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!dan From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Data corruption on an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard Date: 10 May 1996 17:54:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4mvvst$5jf@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: math.berkeley.edu Immediately after installing FreeBSD on a modern pentium PC, I became afflicted with core dumping programs and apparent file system damage. Then I discovered that repeated "fsck -n" produced variable results, sometimes showing no file system damage at all. I am currently experimenting with turning off the motherboard cache to see if the problem goes away, but results are so far inconclusive since the problem is intermittent. Is anyone familiar with the ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard and its foibles? The manual says, "This motherboard features Intel's 430FX PCI chipsets with I/O subsystems." Are these chipsets known to have problems? What are my options? Thanks for any information you can provide. Dan Strick dan@math.berkeley.edu