On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tim O'Shea [tmo] wrote:
Hi
> (SuperMicro P5STE AT Motherboard, Cyrix 686L Pro200+GP processor) I am
I have had Cyrix chips working for a year or so and then all-of-a-sudden
they would turn bad (producing sig 11 in kernel compiles, and oopsing in
random places). I'm not saying that this is your problem.
- If you suspect the kernel to be the problem try downgrading.
- If you suspect the cpu, try exchaning.
- Could be bad ram.
- Clean your cpucooler for dustballs :)
- For the cpu test try
"cd /usr/src/linux"
and then (in a script)
while(1)
make clean bzImage;
and dump output to a file. After an hour or two you can grep for errors
in the output file. In my experience gcc is an excelent test bench for
system stability.
(Old) Cyrix chips is great value when they work. Problem is
that they are rather touchy when it comes to mainboard, ram, and stuff
like that. Don't know about recent ones..
Hope this helps
Yours Thomas
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University of Copenhagen, DIKU. | shoesize: 45
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