On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:54:28PM +0300, Martin Barnard wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if you could help my friend, he has installed Mandrake on his
> system and for some reason it keeps crashing (SIGHUP 11) when he does things
> in X (the whole thing rebooting).
> His system is:
> Pentium 166MMX
> Diamond Stealth 3D2000 (2MB) Video card
> 32 MB RAM
> Generic 32x CDRom
> 6 GIG Quantum HD
> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated as he is getting very fed up with
> the whole deal (he has tried 4 different Linux flavours) and has tried
> reinstalling numerous times.
Signal 11 errors are always hardware failures. Have him check to make sure
that he's not overclocking the CPU, and that the memory timings in BIOS are
within spec. Could be that he's got a ram chip going bad... There's a
sig11 FAQ available online, but I don't recall the URL. Sorry
--
Steve Philp
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