On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Robert Marella wrote:
Thank you for your response. It seems unlikely that it is the power supply because I can buildworld on the same machine with an i386 install. The only difference is the i386 is on a SATA drive while the AMD64 is on an IDE drive.
The funny thing about hardware failure is that the symptoms often make no sense.
Don't rule it out until you test the equipment.