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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2395 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:57:25 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!opjnw From: opjnw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Subject: Re: intermittant reboots and lockups Message-ID: <1993Feb28.194326.15065@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <1993Feb28.164505.982@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 19:43:26 GMT Lines: 41 In article <1993Feb28.164505.982@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes: >I am experiencing intermittant reboots and lockups on a am386DX-40, >while under considerable load (compiles, xv sessions.) A related >problem is that the pallete on the xv window when it firs come up is >corrupted as well. When I start up an xv session from a remote machine >it works fine. I have eliminated the usr tree as a problem. I nfs >mounted it from a machine that works fine. > >My setup is as follows: >amd 386DX-40 >USI 387DX-40 Hmm, I don't remember exactly, but does the above mentioned chip have problems... If so, it could account for the corrupted palletes. >Orchid Pro deisgner IIs >AMI BIOS >Adaptec 1542B >wd8003 controller >8 meg ram How much Swap? If you use the standard 5 Meg swap, things don't work very well when things get loaded down. (It doesn't work very well when I fill up my swap either, but it takes a lot longer to fill up 48MB than it does 5MB) >0.2.1 patchkit > >The machine I tested it against was identical except for it being a >Intel 386DX-33 and intel 387DX-33. There are no problems that I am aware of with Intel 387's. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom