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#! rnews 1213 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.bekkers.com.au!usenet From: "Jan Hurst" <jhurst@bekkers.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: EDO Ram seems to be a major hassle! Date: 19 Sep 1996 04:16:57 GMT Organization: Bekkers Communications Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bba5df$e4bcf760$6f1d11cb@jan.bekkers.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jan.bekkers.com.au X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Hi, I (in my great wisdom - read stupidity) upgraded a perfectly happy 486 BSDi 2.1 box to a Pentium. Result : trashed both / and /usr filesystems and machine became completely unstable. So I reinstalled (easy to reinstall than bother with backups ;) It crashed. After replacing everything it has come down to 2 * 8Mb EDO ram chips as the culprit. I have tried several pairs of EDO ram chips and the result is always the same, memory faults and page faults resulting in kernel panics. Put in standard non-EDO ram and she runs like a charm. Has anyone had ANY similar problems? Or know if a problem exists? Regards, Jan P.S. - please cc via email as I don't get to read news nearly as often as I would like.