One of the guys on my team used to work at AMD. He told me about how mainboard manufacturers would send them boards for AMD's certification, and frequently, they would have all kinds of problems. More often than not, the mainboard manufacturers would test their boards under Windows only. The AMD guys, of course, would run their own OS-agnostic tests and reveal all kinds of timing issues and other problems that were infrequently encountered or not seen at all under Windows.
Those mainboards were really defective, since they did not meet the proper specification constraints, even though those limits were rarely, if ever, reached under Windows. The Linux kernel and its drivers typically do all kinds of things with the hardware that do not happen under Windows with its drivers. If there are any deficiencies in the mainboard design, then the Linux kernel is likely to uncover them. This is probably the case with your machine. If Linux crashes all the time and Windows doesn't (assuming you dual-boot Windows), then you probably have a defective mainboard. Your best bet is to replace your mainboard with a more recent one from MSI (although they were part of the problem in the past, they have since repented) or Asus, with a Via chipset. This is after a thorough memory test, of course. But a memory failure could result from either bad memory or a bad mainboard. Mike On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:47:15PM -0600, Ammon Christiansen wrote: > I'm getting really frustrated with frequent kernel panics. It happened with > red hat 8 and now 9. I though 9 would solve it. It happens about once or > twice a day and I have been observing when it happens and there don't seem to > be any common factors. It kernel panics at the login screen, with no > programs running, or with tons of programs running. I posted /var/messages > not long ago, but didn't get any responses. I really like linux, but I need > something stable. If someone could point me in the right direction on where > to find out more info on why it might do this or to troubleshoot it and > especially solve it, I'd appreciate it. I wonder if Red Hat 7.2 or 7.3 is > more stable. I don't need the newest stuff, just something stable, > preferably easy to configure. Does apt-get support redhat versions previous > to 8? > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies -- ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | | The sum of the Universe is zero. | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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