Jean Lagarde wrote:
I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I might have enough clues now to get some useful hints from an expert.
FreeBSD 5.3-release (see dmesg below for details)
The problem seems to be with trying to run with 1.5GB vice 512MB of RAM. The system has not had problems so far when I only leave the 512MB stick in. When I add the 1GB stick the system will reboot at specific times, for example, while trying to launch KDE3 or trying to make OpenOffice (always reboots at "Extracting for openoffice-1.1.2-1"). I do not see any panic in the messages log, the system just silently reboots.
I initially installed FreeBSD with only the 512MB stick in.
The memory itself seems fine; memtest86 detects no errors.
I too have a similar problem. I have 7 identical systems. all with identical MoBo's SCSI hard drives and RAM.
One machine reboots frequently with 5.3 where with 4.9 it "never" rebooted. 6 machines are fine. 1 reboots. I changed memory sticks. (which incidentally always pass an extensive memory test). I even changed the power supply on the computer.
The last thing I am going to change is the MoBo. Perhaps it has some timing issue discovered only with 5.3. Luckily when I needed 7 MoBos, I purchased 8 and have a spare.
This is mystery, because as I said, 4.9 worked fine on this machine.
regards, Jim _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
