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From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hanging/Crashing FreeBSD.
Date: 11 Oct 1996 06:10:59 GMT
Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan
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walcottt@stu.beloit.edu wrote:

walcottt>>I recently bought another 16 MBs of RAM for my machine, which is running
walcottt>>FreeBSD and DOS.  Under DOS, everything seems hunky dory.  Under FreeBSD,
walcottt>>however, I seem to occasionally run into problems.  

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walcottt>>the problems persisted.  I'm at something of my wits end on this, and I find
walcottt>>that using a computer prone to spontaneous rebooting is less than
walcottt>>delightful.  I'm using a 486 DX2/66, with 28 megs of RAM; 72 pin 8 mb SIMM,
walcottt>>72 pin 4 mb SIMM, 4 30 pin 4 MB SIMMS.  

You have both 72 pin SIMMs and 30 pin SIMMs.  Does this mean your 
motherboard has both 72 pin slots AND 30 pin slots? Or, you are
using some sort of converter to fit 30 pin SIMMs in a 72 pin slot?
I occasionally hear that 30-pin-to-72-pin-SIMM-converters are the
root of troubles.