I sympathize greatly. I ran into something like this with an AMD K6/2 -
350. This executes one instruction too fast, and messes things up.
Other K6s and other speeds are OK.
slow the bus speed and try again.
What processor have you?
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Adrian D Jensen wrote:
> Has anyone else had memory problems on this type of notebook (i.e. a Compal
> TS30i2/3, aka. Dell Inspiron, aka. MidWest Micro SI, etc.). Specifically,
> these are single bit errrors that occur during cpu/memory intensive operations.
> I have tried 3 different RedHat version (5.1, 5.2, and a custom 6.0 with patches
> to last Friday) and have been having the same types of errors with all of them.
> The installation croaks 3 out of 4 times apparently due to a corrupted RAM disk
> or file buffer, I get errors like "foo.rpm failed to install" or "unable to set
> time zone /something...something/timezone does not exist". When it does appear
> to install correctly, I still get errors when compiling. I usually can not get
> more than 3 consecutive kernel compiles before running into an error. This
> ranges anywhere from a C-preprocesor stumble on a file to a kernel oops that
> quickly snowballs thru the system with further commands.
> I have been able to isolate a number of the C compiler stumbles, copy out a
> memory image and the affected file from buffer to the disk, reboot and find the
> problem. In each case I was able to truly isolate, diff'ing the error file to
> the original on the disk showed a single character, at somepoint in the file,
> had changed by 1 bit in ASCII code. Grep'ing and extracting the file from the
> memory image showed the same thing.
> I have searched thru the several months of linux-kernel/development/laptop
> lists and have not been able to find anything similar. Has anyone heard of a
> similar problem? Has anyone heard of similar bugs in the kernel talking thru
> chipsets? This is an Intel 82371 so I kind of doubt it.
> Tired of tearing half my hair out debuging and the other half out fighting
> with Quantex. They are reluctent since they basicly refuse to assume liabilty
> if anything other than their default Win98 is installed and I can not recreate
> errors under Win98. I ordered it without any software, though Win98 is
> mandatory, so I have no way to test, atleast it runs the DVD ... for now.
> Any comments (hey thats wierd, I had the same problem fixed it this way, IDIOT
> <slap> your supposed to enable foo_option) would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Linux junkie,
> Adrian Jensen
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
