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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs Date: 6 Oct 1996 15:23:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <538iso$823@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <FRODEF.96Oct1160443@dslab5.cs.uit.no> <32560E04.3163@www.play-hookey.com> <536erv$8kl@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <kientzleDytz0y.K7L@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E kientzle@netcom.com wrote: > I had a similar problem when I first installed FreeBSD, which I finally > solved by changing the cache settings in the CMOS. I changed it from > `write back' to `write through.' System was rock-solid after that. That points to a crappy chipset on your mainboard, however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)