-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Benjamin Walkenhorst Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:17 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eric Schuele Subject: Re: Everything randomly generates .core files
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
You probably have a bad CPU cache on your motherboard. The solution is to use that machine for some Windows system and get a different PC.
While I agree with your diagnosis, it's probably a hardware problem, I don't think Windows is going to run well on that machine.
Perhaps - but since PC's these days are generally warrantied to run Windows, if that happened, back to the store for a return, eh? Some machines are even sold with Windows preloaded, if you can believe it - I think a retailer would have a hard time claiming that a machine that was preloaded with Windows and that Windows couldn't run for more then 5 minutes on, wasn't a canidate for a warranty return!
Of course, we ARE assuming the OP used NEW hardware, not some crappy, grungy 5 year old discard PC, right?
It's running on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I've had it less than a year. Ran windows fine. Ran FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE fine.. 5.3-BETA7 as well. Just started a day or so ago, when I formatted and installed 5.3-RELEASE. I guess some partial failure could have coincided with the install. I did not have the chance to run memtest yet.... but will today/tonight
Another thought... assuming its a hardware issue. I would expect it to manifest itself under greater loads such as when building a port. As opposed to sitting idly while browsing the filesystem with xfe. One example is the OpenOffice port.... building that took forever... the entire time the CPU was pegged 95%-100%... but nothing hiccuped. even had xfe up, and while browsing the web.
Anyways... thanks for the attention to my problem(s). I'll post the memtest results asap.
Because if that was the case, then he got what he deserved, eh?
Ted
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