From: KC7ZRU - Tate (mpwyo@rt-0.4kroki.pl)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 17:53:53 EEST
Buddy of mine here (KC7UGE) just came into work with a great sob story.
He's trying to install Redhat 7.1 on an older tweaked out Aptiva. Yea,
this puppy has been overclocked and pushed to the hilt. CPU is an
AMD-233 w/80M-o-RAM. BIOS only indicates speed options upto 166. And
yes, it's running at 233. He tells me the Aptiva's motherboard dosen't
support any of the AMD CPUs either(?).
Install flies nice. Runs setup to change system services. Does a reboot,
logs in and walks away from the box for dinner. Comes back and he says
he's got a black screen with "General Protection Fault" across the top
and a whole page of hex addresses, cursor blinking at the bottom. He
swears it wasn't a screen saver. keyboard and mouse un-responsive -
totally locked up on him. (no idea if he tried Alt+Fx for another
terminal or not). He power-cycled the box, now it just hangs on
Initializing eth0. He says he left it there all night long - no change.
This make sense to anyone? I suggested he 'un-tweek' all his stuff and
start over with his Aptiva configured to original speeds. Ideas?
I coulda sworn the only GPF info on LINUX was the screen saver - he's
adamant it wasn't a screen saver.
Besides living for unstable hardware, is he smoke'n his socks too? Or
have I just misunderstood a facet of LINUX?
Thanks!
73
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