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#! rnews 1557 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.euro.net!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Needed: utility to test SIMMs Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 18:38:34 +0200 Organization: Kampai Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31669E0A.41C67EA6@kampai.euronet.nl> References: <dkleinh.828415914@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <4jro6l$92m@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> <3163018F.26A@communique.no> <N.040596.203134.56@ix-col1-22.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p603.asd.euronet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) R. Scranton wrote: > > > I've got a panic message telling me: > > RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. > > > > FreeBSD is extremely sensitive to memory timing issues. I was unable to get > to run reliably until I replaced some mixed 3-chip 9-chip simms with all > 9-chip simms. Runs like a champ now. OS/2 exhibits similar behavior, as it > also exercises things harder that DOS/Windows. Good luck tracking it down. I heard that many of the latest Intel motherboards don't support parity checking - this is worrying - anyone know any more about this? Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06