On 26 Feb 2002 00:46:36 -0600 Jason Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > An Athlon 1400 is an XP 1400 and the XP chip is not affected by this bug. Charles
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