Hardware question

[Sheldon Dubrowin]

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
> 
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> 
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