Paul You were right about the memory speeds - I swapped my two mismatched 64 MB DIMMs for a 66 MHz 128 MB, but I still got crashes. Then I looked at memory timings - it was set to 10 ns, and I tried 'normal', 'medium' and 8 ns. Still got crashes. I had thought before that the problem might be my soundcard, an ESS 1868 (because of some boot messages, that I later found were normal). So in desperation, I reserved IRQ 5 and DMA 1 for legacy devices. I have had one crash since, but it took a lot longer to happen ... at least I know it's a hardware problem.
Richard. Paul, Saturday 16 February 2002 2:17 pm: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:14:39 +0000 RichardA wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > Perhaps you should check the speed of the memory within the Bios. Sometimes > setting that back to more conservative settings helps. Also check if the > memory modules (if you have several) are all the same speed. Winders does > not care too much about that but Linux does. > > hth > Paul > > >I've got a homebuilt Celeron 300 with 128 MB. It has run windows reliably > >for a couple of years (well, reliably for windows). > > > >Now I have MDK 8.1 on it, all will seem well until I play an avi, mpg or > >mp3. and then it will lock up - taking the keyboard with it. Running a > >couple or four programs at once seems to lock it up too. > > > >If I leave it running untouched for a few days (I proxy my laptop through > >it), it's fine when I turn the monitor back on.
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