This is only my suggestion, as AFAIK there are several possible causes of
this. I also was running happily for months when all of a sudden it started
happening - about a year ago now so nothing to do with 6.0/6.1.
I was running a Cyrix chip which i had setup according to my motherboards
recommendations. On further inspection the chip had different settings
printed on the chip itself. I changed the settings on my m/b to those
printed on the chip.
The change effectively used a higher multiplier with a slower bus speed -
hey presto my problems went away and never came back. I think the Cyrix
chips may already be overclocked, so it pays to set them up slightly on the
slower side - you REALLY won't notice the difference!
Just a suggestion, perhaps worth checking out.
Martin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arend teRaa
> Sent: 23 September 1999 23:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Signal 11
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a machine that has been running Mandrake 6.0 for the
> last couple of months. Yesterday I tried to upgrade it to
> 6.1 but I keep getting signal 11 errors. Actually, I wasn't
> even doing an upgrade, I wiped the drive clean and did a
> fresh installation. I seem to remember that Signal 11 errors
> always mean a hardware problem of some sort but I don't
> understand why it was working fine under 6.0? The errors are
> happening during the installation process - usually when it
> is installing packages. I have tried having it check for bad
> blocks during the format - that didn't help. Is there
> anything I can do or should I just go back to 6.0?
>
> It's running on a Cyrix MII/PR300 chip. IDE 1.2 GB drive (I
> don't know the make and model offhand). The MB is a PCCHIPS
> M571 with 64MB Ram installed.
>
> Thanks
> Arend teRaa
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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