On Thursday 27 December 2001 04:17 pm, lee wrote: > Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. > Here is the gist of the guts :-) > It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory > consists of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The > other is a stick I bought from Tiger Direct. I've also got an ATI > RAge 128 Pro (AGP card). In addition there is a Teac cdr along with > another cdrom. The hd is a WD unit. Oh..and the bios is by > award..version je-439 (if this helps). There is also a nic card > that needs to go in,whch isn't in there at the moment. All of this > is in an AT type case... > > The errors are seg faults.."seems like memory is missing"..lots of > sig 11's,,hmm a few other wordings but it sounds like the themes > are the same across all of them. > > I've tried a # of different settings..video shadowing off/on,turned > the caches off/on,the pci burst settings and a variety of other > things that don't seem to come to mind at the moment. Re-set the > ram to cl3 ( took out what I percieved as the cheaper ram (the > tiger) and used just the crucial)....pnp off/on..irq manual/auto. > Darn near all of 'em I think..lol. Bios defaults..set-up > defaults...gee have I missed any..lol. I'm sure I have but you get > the point :-) > > I even tried taking the drive to another box,loaded 8.1 (gaming > edition) and put it back in the machine (it didn't like my > trickery) to no avail.
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Sig11's are due to faulty software or faulty hardware. Since you're havin problems with software that most people don't have problems with, it strongly indicates hardware problems. So I believe before you can do much else, you need to test the hardware. Before you try the apps below, go thru the box and re-seat ram sticks, peripheal cards, cables, etc. Make sure the HDD is set appropriately to master or slave, and not cable select. Make a bootable floppy with memtest86. http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ The doc's will tell you how to do this. You can also make it on the other box. Then boot that floppy and let the tests run overnite. You should get -0- errors. mprime would be a more stringent test http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/projects/mprime.html Make a bootable floppy and run 'mprime -m', choose option 17 (torture test). Let it run overnite, again, you should get -0- errors. The ultimate acid test is cpuburn http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ You should have constant cpu temperature monitoring enabled before you run the appropriate module for your processor (ie, K6, K7). Again, -0- errors, and your cpu and case cooling must be adequate to keep your cpu at least 30C under AMD's failure spec for your proccessor. -- ������Tom Brinkman � � Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
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