On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Martin Morgan wrote: > > Matt - wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am having quite a deal of problems installing Redhat > > > on a Duron system. Half way through the RPM install > > > > I have a AMD Athlon 1gig, and have no problems at all > > they are very similar to the duron and I have several duron > > 800s that run fine... > > Hello all. > > Probably not related but... > I just bought an AMD Athlon 1.6gig with 512Mb of ram (2x256). > Tried my first Debian install which kept crashing. Tried Mandrake 8.1 which > also crashed (but told me sig 11). It turns out that if I have simm A in > slot 1 and simm B in slot 2 it crashes. But works fine with either simm B in > slot 1 and simm A in slot 2, OR either simm in slot 1 and the other on the > table (in view of computer but not touching distance...). > > Simms are same brand, type etc...
Bingo! I was trying to remember what Anthony Rumble said the other day about his AMD hassles. It was something like the chipset of the Mobo drives the RAM too fast. The trick was to turn off AMD optimisation. This however did not affect the install itself. Maybe you could underclock the CPU for the install & dick around with the kernel compiling afterwards. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
