Re: [LI] AMD K6 woes

[Siva Subramanian V <ssv@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

1. Is your 128 MB RAM new ?? If it's new Check your RAM .
2. Try recompiling Your Kernel with Via Chipset option enabled.

You have not specified as to how your system actually crashes. Any
application which crashed ??? If you can give me further details about
the
crash may be we can do something about it.

PS : MS didn't buy RedHat Unless you are from MS.
        For your SMPS it your SMPS is an ATX probably will be 250 Watts
else
200 Watts.

Shivakumar Senthilvel wrote:

> Hi,
> I had almost completed this mail and my system crashed and i had to do
> it again. For a linuxer this crashing is unpalatable. My Red Hat 6.1 is
> crashing intermittently when i run X .(Which i run all the time). This
> happens 2-3 times a day (did MS buy redhat :). I installed RH 6.1 on an
> AMD K6-2 300 and it crashed regularly so i upgraded to a K6-3 400 but it
> still happens. I have turned on all logging and created seperate logs
> for kernel msgs and crit status messages but no clue in them. The
> machine config is as below
>
> AMD K6-3 400 (socket 7)
> VIA chipset motherboard (VT82C598MVP)
> sb 16 sound card (CT4170)
> D-link 10/100 ethernet card (DFE-538TX)
> cirrus logic AGP with 4 MB) (CL-GD5465)
> Sony IDE CD ROM and 1.44 Floppy
> 128 MB single DIMM SDRAM (tweaked lilo to detect above 64 MB)
> 250 W SMPS (not sure)
>
> Patches applied after install
>
> gnome-libs-1.0.54-1.i386.rpm
> glib-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm
> gtk+-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm
>
> Modules running
>
> [root@vanathi /root]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> rtl8139                12188   1  (autoclean)
> nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
> msdos                   5276   1  (autoclean)
> fat                    30464   1  (autoclean) [msdos]
> sb                     33620   0
> uart401                 5968   0  [sb]
> sound                  57240   0  [sb uart401]
> soundlow                 300   0  [sound]
> soundcore               2372   6  [sb sound]
>
> Disk topography
> The machine is a dual boot (NT & Linux). I use linux usually unless i
> need NT for some app. There is a 16 fat drive that is mounted in linux.
> The root NT drive (c:) is ntfs and not mounted
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       382   3068383+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2           383      1024   5156865    5  Extended
> /dev/hda3          1015      1027    104422+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda5           383       764   3068383+   6  FAT16
> /dev/hda6   *       765      1014   2008093+  83  Linux
>
> Command (m for help):
>
> The only clue that i have is a core dump by netscape. This is happens
> quite regularly but i am unable to pinpoint the problem.
>
> [shiv@vanathi shiv]$ gdb -core ./core
> GNU gdb 4.18
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux".
> Core was generated by `netscape --library-path
> /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-'.
> Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
> #0  0x8dba07e in ?? ()
> (gdb)
>
> Any Clues ?
>
> Regards,
> Shiv
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