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Re: Problems with FIC 503+...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zoki)
Tue Oct 27 21:01:47 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:10:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Zoki <zokiphoto@magic.fr>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981021091629.6468A-100000@vicki.traveller.com>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote:
# Original message #
->>Well, after having waited for 2.5 months for my local dealer to get the
->>FIC 503+ MB, I installed the thing yesterday... Can't say it went without
->>problems. I've been getting irregular freeze-ups so bad I had to reset the
->>box in order to get it going again. I expect you guess what the effect was
->>of such a reboot. The system is restored again but I keep having weird
->>problems. During the install of Applix I got a red screen (a nice change
->>from the blue ones ;-) with a lot of debugging info. Some of the info was
->>about CPU, EIP, EFlags, K60lpd or hdparm, eax, asi, stack (with a lot of
->>numbers), Call trace, Code, message: "Aieee, killing interupt handler",
->>kfree of non-kmallowed memory, idle task may not help, etc, etc...
# Vickies feedback #
->Well if it's any consolation, I run the same board with a K6-2 300
->chip, and it works great.
*** Well, it's *not*. ;-) Grrrrr... I'm jalous. I've been trying to run it
with a K6-300 and it's far from making me happy.
->I would guess that yours is a memory problem. You might not have the
->board set up for the type of memory you have. This particular board
->has jumpers to set up your memory type [speed].
*** You've a partial point there. It's a mem problem for sure but not the
RAM's. It seems that my box is not happy with the 1Mb of cache!??
&$*@#...It's partly because of the 1Mb cache that I've been fighting to
get that board. Don't ask me how or why but with the cache disabled it
runs stable (as far as I can see). With the cache on it freeks out: MetroX
works once and quits freezing up the box like in the good old Win NT
days, fetchmail exits with the weirdest error messages, Pine receives an
exit signal, exits and dumps core if I try to restart it, after that any
command starts to dump core unless I reboot the system...
->Or you might have fried some memory in the transfer [easy to do].
*** I guess the RAM is okay since it passes the boot test...
->First I would check all of the board settings with the manual. Good
->luck.
*** I found out the freekin' manual doesn't correspond to the settings to
be made on the board. Especially the SDRAM jumpers. According to my
provider I should configure the jumpers the way it's noted on the board
itself. Nice, except the explanation is not very clear. The other thing I
don't understand is why I should bother configuring the SDRAM properly
when I use EDO RAM!??
Cheers,
Zoki.
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