On Jul 24, 2008, at 9:15 AM, John Sullivan wrote:
Right, after trying for a number of days the system still just hung without letting me get either a dump or to interactively debug in the failed state, I reverted back to the Generic kernel, removed half the memory (2 of the 4 1GB sticks) and the system became stable. I inserted 1 of the 2 removed sticks and all was fine. I swapped that stick with the remaining stick and all was fine. I put them both back in and I started to see the crashes again - the first of which, gave me this dump -->
You might want to double-check the detailed documentation about your motherboard.
There are a fair number of consumer-grade motherboards that can't reliably handle 4 double-sided DIMMs at full speed. Some of them require you to downgrade the memory clock from, say, PC3200 (aka 200MHz DDR) down to PC2700 speed (aka 166MHz DDR); others may work, but only if you install the more expensive buffered type of RAM (which also tend to include ECC) rather than generic unbuffered RAM.
Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
