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I had problems with my K62-300, it turned out my cache was bad, I had to turn it off (slowing the machine down a bit) to get my linux to stabilize. I don't know if I had the same exact errors, but it might be worth a try. Shel On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Brian J. Conway wrote: > After spending a good deal of time messing with the K6-2 450 w/ 64MB > server for my school's LUG, I'm about ready to toss it out the window. > Every time I boot a RedHat, Mandrake, or FreeBSD install, I either get a > kernel panic on boot every other time or a signal 11 halfway through an > install. I've tried the following to check the hardware, and I think > the only thing left is the memory, which I have none to swap with: > > -tried installing with and without ethernet card(s) > -swapped video cards > -floppy and hard drive are good as a win98 bootdisk and format work fine > -CD drive is good, as I stole it from scott's desktop > -checked the bus/multiplier/voltage jumpers and they're fine, no visible > memory voltage jumpers > -set bus to 66mhz just to see if it wasn't PC100 memory, still same > results > -reset bios defaults to make sure all low-level hardware settings were > cool > > Any suggestions before I attempt a 48-dollar collection for a new 64MB > PC100 dimmstick? > > Brian J. Conway > dogbert at clue4all.net > > Geek for hire: http://clue4all.net/resume > > Microsoft is not an answer. Microsoft is a question. The answer is: > No. > -- anonymous > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). -- +----------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Sheldon M. Dubrowin | GTE Internetworking | | Network Engineer | 3 Van de Graaf Drive | | GTE Internetworking, | Burlington, Ma 01803 | | Powered by BBN | (781) 262-5430 | | QoS and VPN Engineering | dubrowin at bbn.com | +----------------------------------------+-----------------------+ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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