Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-18 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have had odd behavior like you are describing with cheap motherboards. I ran all of the memory tests etc, and everything passed with flying colors. Despite passing all of the tests I could throw at the hardware, windows 2000 was very unstable. We ultimately ended up replacing the board. On

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:43PM -0800, Jean Lagarde wrote: Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the suggestion about disabling ACPI however. To address some of the other comments, that exact

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
I would have to agree that it is a HW issue. The RAM itself may be ok, but may have issues with other HW components in your system. --Nick On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:10:27 -0800, Jean Lagarde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been troubleshooting reboots over the last weekend, I think I might have

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-16 Thread Jim Pazarena
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

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:45:07PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: 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

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-16 Thread RW
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 03:10, 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

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-16 Thread Jean Lagarde
Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the suggestion about disabling ACPI however. To address some of the other comments, that exact CPU-mobo-memory configuration worked fine running Win2000 for many

5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-15 Thread Jean Lagarde
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

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:10:27PM -0800, 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

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Henson
On 03/15/05 22:10:27, 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