Hi,
Don't know exactly if this will solve your problem or not (i now run a
PIII), but i used to run a Cyrix166. When i installed it, there was
conflictng settings with regard to bus speed and multipliers etc.
Can't remember exactly which way round it was, but there was one lot of
settings printed on the chip itself and one lot in the 'recommend settings'
section of my motherboard manual. One set of settings gave me a higher
bogomips figure on bootup (about 200 if i remember rightly).
When i ran like this i got no end of sig11 problems if ever i tried to
compile anything. Advise told me that it was because the chip was
overclocked too much (a difficult one to beleive as i hadn't intentionally
done any overclocking).
I changed the settings to the other set (again, can't remember which way
round this was - although it probably involved decreasing the bus speed and
increasing the multiplier), and although i lost a tiny (read unnoticable)
decrease in speed to approx 180 bogomips, all my problems went away for
ever.
Look into things along this line - especially if your have either sound or
video on the motherboard as this will work the bus even harder.
Good luck - Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Springett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:54 PM
Subject: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
> I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a
> PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I
> couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have
> similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate
> the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to
> address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it
> always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11.
> I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain
> problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do
not
> have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a
> new disk available which includes all the upgrades?
> Festen remains on my machine working well.
> Kindest regards
> Bob Springett
>
