On 03-Aug-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: > Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> >> I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no >> apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard >> control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del >> don't >> do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. >> I'm running: >> -Kernel 2.2.10 >> -Potato >> -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard > > I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or > 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I > also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and > an epox mobo. > > My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from > my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three > finger salute to my system. > > I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it > did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different > windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in > the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had > almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm > running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment > and gnome for X. >
Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel? --------------------------- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
