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Re: Problems with FIC 503+...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victoria Stanfield)
Tue Oct 27 22:43:07 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:44:44 -0600 (EST)
From: Victoria Stanfield <vicki@stanfield.net>
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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.
Well I'm not sure what could be causing your problem. If you recently
purchased it, I'd consider returning it. Or at least asking the vendor
to tell you all of the settings in an email so that you can be sure you
haven't configured it incorrectly. The documentation was exactly right
for my board; I reset it several times to determine whether I could see
a difference with different types of memory.
Best wishes. Have a good day!
- -Vicki
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| E-mail: vicki@stanfield.net |
| |
| My public key - http://www.hsv.tis.net/~vicki/key.txt |
| My Linux page - http://thwartgiant.dynip.com/vicki/LINUX |
| "We are what we repeatedly do." |
| - Aristotle |
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**If I believe your words and am deceived, which of us is diminished?
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