Many thanks Martin
Regards
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: vendredi 18 juin 1999 03:58
Subject: Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
>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
>>
>
>
