Tihomir Gasparac wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would just like to share a "Kernel Panic" remedy
> with the group. It might be trivial to some, but I
> think it might be useful information.
>
> The problem I had was that Linux crashed consistently
> because of "Kernel Panic", all I could do was to power
> off.
>
> This stated to happen a while after I had upgraded to
> AMD K6-2 (333MHz), what I then could figure out the
> problem occurred in conjunction with APM. I turned off
> APM (did not start apmd at boot). After this I was
> still always getting the "Kernel Panic" crash but not
> as often!!! Linux would stay up longer.
>
> My next approach was to inspect the memory and CPU. I
> tried with reducing the memory and got an interesting
> result: I have 96M. With less memory in the box (32M
> and 64M) I got the "Kernel Panic" crash right away
> after boot!!!
> Well, next thing to check was the CPU, I bought a
> better fan. This did not help. After that I checked
> the jumper settings for the CPU.
> * That is where the problem was: *
> * I was running the CPU on 2.9 *
> * volts instead of the specified 2.2 *
>
> After fixing this the machine has been rock stable,
> even with APM activated. I now know I should have
> checked the HW first, but I thought it was a software
> problem.
>
> My two cents,
>
> /Tiho
>
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Yep, since moving to linux, I have thje luxury of looking at HW FIRST
every time I see a problem. I know the odds are better than 50% that I
will be spending my time at the right place (that is of course after I
have thought over my own actions carefully and made sure the "problem"
didn't have its hands on my keyboard.)
I just had a 7.0 install problem -- couldn't find the RAGE II / ATI Mach
64 Server at X install time.... I inspected the CD and discovered even
the BIOS could no longer communicate with it. It would spin disks and
eject and load, but the data interface to the Mobo was dead dead dead.
That makes 7 CD drives since July.
Civileme
