On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 02:42, Bastian Voigt wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using Linux Mandrake 8.1 on an Athlon 1400 System with an NVidia > G-Force2MX Card which worked fine for several weeks with kernel 2.4.8-mdk. > > As I needed to get the Snapscan e40 usb Scanner working, I downloaded the > standard Marcello kernel 2.4.17 from kernel.org and built it. After that I > installed the NVidia kernel driver from their website to get 3d accel > support under X11. Now suddenly I am encountering random crashes without > any helpful logfile entries. The machine just passes away sometimes (or > sometimes often), and yesterday it even crashed the file system, now the > machine doesnt boot anymore.
Well, the only thing I can think of is that Athlon bug that affects Linux kernels and nVidia chips. Makesure you added mem=nopentium to your lilo.conf. do a quick google search for this bug. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020119-gentoo-amd.html
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