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In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
>>
>>
>>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
>>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
>>it crashes within minutes.
>>
>>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
>>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
>
>This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
>SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
>case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.

One other possibility -- bad (or too slow) cache RAM.  This will blow you
sky high on a Unix or Xenix system, but frequently works just fine under
MSDOS.

I've seen several cheap clone boards come with cache RAM that's 5ns too slow
for the board's specs.  The symptom was unpredictable crashes, usually
within minutes of booting.

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