> > 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.
I was still getting errors after decreasing the fsb speed.
I modified the bios as follows:
- sdram timing by spd enabled
- auto detect pci clock enabled
- clk spread spectrum enabled
I retested the memory, ran it overnight using memtest86+.
No errors.
I don't know which of the above fixed the problem.
However, it is not causing any memory errors now.
Thanks so much for the pointers.
JohnM
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