[plug] A drastic response to memory problems

[John Breen]

I have, but no tunder Linux.  My expeience of frequent hangs & crashes was 
windows 98 on an AMD K6-2 450.  W98 would crash frequently, and W2k/NT4 woudl 
crash during the install.  Clocking the beast down to 300 seemed to fix the 
problem.  I suspect that 400 would as well, but I have a working system 
now....

AFAIR the older AMD manuals (and I'm talking P55 m/b's had a bit in them that 
said "there is a stability advantage to running with an integer multiplier 
(2x, 3x, 4x, 5x ) to one that is not...

Perhaps a lesson for overclockers here?

On Friday 30 March 2001 17:48, Russell Steicke wrote:
> After lots and lots of failed kernel compiles (gcc exits with sig 11),
> and running memtest86 without any errors, and experiments with wait
> states etc in the bios, I finally succumbed and reduced the cpu speed
> from 733MHz to 550MHz.  And now I can get a kernel completely compiled,
> and I'm also hoping that this is the end of the random X crashes I have
> been seeing.
>
> I intend to leave the system this way unless I get further inspiration,
> energy and time, as a reasonably quick but stable system is better than
> one that is even quicker but flaky.
>
> Has anyone else done this sort of thing in that circumstance?

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Regards,

John Breen

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| John Breen
| BSc (Computer Science)
| Contracting Delphi Programmer
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