Re: Rebuilding my system binaries led to some kind of kernel panic..?

From: Matt Bostock (matt_at_mattbostock.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:31:24 +0100

Just to update, I disabled my CPU cache, changed the CPU clock back to
normal, slowed all the other settings down in the BIOS and it's been
recompiling stably. It's still going though after about 12 hours :(

Matt :)

Nathan Mates wrote:
> In article <7nJDc.135$SE5.119@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli.net>,
> Matt Bostock <matt@mattbostock.com> wrote:
>
>>It's a Pentium 200MHz (overclocked to 225MHz) MMX with 64MB EDO RAM.
>
>
> Tried going back to stock speed? Overclocking puts stress on a
> system which may show up only under extreme loads-- and compiling a
> new system is a pretty hefty load.
>
> Secondly, have you checked for RAM problems? MemTest86
> at http://www.memtest86.com/ is a great program for that, and a free
> download. There's also MemTest86+, a derivation of that project at
> http://www.memtest.org/ . Download one or both programs, copy to
> floppy/cdrom, and boot off them to run at least overnight. If there
> are any memory errors, FIX THEM.
>
> Nathan Mates
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