It appears to be O.S. related - its much more stable under Windows and FreeBSD.
~Christopher ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:04 PM Subject: Re: I HATE my computer!!! > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:54AM -0600, Christopher Henderson wrote: > > Arg! I'm never going to buy AMD again.... > > SNIP ( it was long .... ) > > Synopsis: > Chris has a Dual SMP AMD system on a Tyan MB that is unstable and crashes > periodically. > > Chris - the motherboard you reported using has been praised as being very > stable at : http://www.hardwareguys.com/picks/motherboards.html > (FWIW) > > They recommend making sure that you use high quality memory and a high > quality power supply to assure stability. What are you using for > RAMand PS ? Any possible problems in these areas ? > > As an experiment have you tried backing down the clock speed of the system > about 10 or tenty percent to see if it stabilizes ? If it does then its > likely you have a marginal component somewhere on the system. > (But which one... ) > > Did you run MEMTEST86 to make sure none of your RAM has any subtle > defects ? MEMTEST is a free RAM diagnostic that is incredibly > thorough, and it runs standalone from a floppy. Anyone who ever plays with > hardware shaould have it, see google to find a place to download it. > > > Also - please post in plain text, 72 chars wrapped. > See http://expita.com/nomime.html for how to configure Outlook Express > to send only text email as is the practice in this email list. > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2002. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. > > (o- -o) > //\ eLviintuaxbilse /\\ > V_/_ _\_V > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
