I had only one memory stick in there. I swapped it out
with another memory stick, still errors. I swapped it
out with a third, still errors. Possibly all memory is
subpar. It was just what I had laying around. All sticks
could be bad.
> The symptoms you describe sound like classic hardware problems,
> however, I see a couple things worthy of note in your dmesg:
>
> > -----
> > OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> > cpu0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 64KB L2 cache)
> > 1.61 GHz
> > cpu0:
> > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
>
> No idea why, but I've seen a number of AMD systems of that
> vintage which were temperamental about their RAM. Wasn't that
> the RAM was bad...but the system bus timing was off in some
> way.
>
> Curiously, these machines had more-than-usual amounts of clock
> speed control, and they seemed to settle down by cranking down
> the clock speed a tad. You won't miss it, really.
I have set the front side bus to be 200, instead of 266 and
am re-running the memory tests.
> ...
> > rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 12, address
> > 00:e0:06:f6:bf:3e
> > rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
> ...
>
> That looks bad. IRQ12 is used by mouse hardware...
No mouse plugged in or used. Never will be.
JohnM
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