Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:> > For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating > > time with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual > > Athlon system. [...]
> It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem > started occuring.
I experienced similar problems on a dual Athlon system (MSI K7D Master-L motherboard, AMD 760MPX chipset, dual Athlon MP 2200+) which is barely a couple of months old. I ended up reverting to RELENG_5_1. With -CURRENT, both UP and SMP kernels will crash with symptoms which suggest hardware trouble. With RELENG_5_1, UP is rock solid (knock on wood) while SMP crashes within minutes of booting.
Just to follow up on this...
My symptoms were different, in that I have problems with both UP and SMP (although UP did seem more stable). I also tried a clean install of 5.1-RELEASE (right off the CD's), and that would also hang up. Since I *know* this machine had been running fine back at the time of 5.1-release, this was pretty significant.
I took the PC back to the place I got it from, and they ran some kind of diagnostics on it and said the motherboard is bad. They're replacing the motherboard. So, unless I have something more to say when I get that back, it looks pretty likely that my headaches were hardware-related. (my machine also has a different components than des's machine)
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