On Saturday 01 September 2001 11:52 am, burns wrote:
> Thanks to those who replied.
>
> Here's an update FWIW:
>
> I did a fresh format, a fresh partition and a fresh drive even. In fact I
> laboious emoved, replaced, or reconfigured the entire system component by
> component, with my system in pieces scattered all over the floor. .
>
> By process of elimination, I have narrowed it down to either a corrupt
> bios, faulty motherbopard, or one of the two cpu's is toats, I suspect a
> combination of the latter two... perhaps not suprising as this was an
> overclocked system - even though I have a fairly sophisticated cooling
> system. Normally the CPUs run consistently between 32-40C. However, it may
> have been the recent summer heat wave 2 weeks @ 100F+) that, in the end,
> did me in.
>
> Symptoms:
> - GPFs and stack dumps when attempting to load windows, even from a cd
> boot.
>
> - numerous cpu/apic errors in Linux (although this is not unusual in the
> 2.4.* kernel, even with the noapic option in lilo. However the huge number
> of errors indicated that underlying process handling was abnormal).
>
> - lack of stability. The system kept losing ide and pci components and
> their resouce allocations (e.g. my cdrom and NIC)
>
> In the end, I suspect this fault(s) have been building for some time. As
> usual it is never one thing. I have also had a faulty CDROM drive to
> contend with which made diagnosis more difficult.
>
> I have reset all the bios settings back to bare defaults and declocked the
> processors. Linux now works without errors (and will talk to my NIC),
> although Windows still cashes during setup (just goes to show which is the
> most robust underlying OS - if there was any doubt).
>
> I can limp along this way, but I suspect the real answer is to invest in a
> new mainboard, which also means a new cpu as the board is a BX chipset and
> will only take a 466Mhz processor at the most.
>
> Have anyone heard of any issues with Linux running AMD processors...
> specifically the Thunderbird? Keith? I believe you have some experience in
> this area?
I'm running on an Athlon 800 right now.... No problems with the install...
did one last night.
But FYI, my first install was on a K-233 (K5?) and it had problems with
APIC and I had to use a parm (even to boot the install diskette) on SuSE 7.2
of:
noapic noapm
(also had problems with the pwr mgmt......)
Once I got by that, it installed fine.
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