Re: Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-17 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > Hi, > > A couple of people here (including myself) are trying to set up a > router (IP forwarder really) based on Debian. We have an old 486 (it's a > Cyrix 486-40) with 4 MB of RAM for the router. According to what I have fou

Re: Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-16 Thread George Bonser
Make sure that the system has a CPU fan and that it is WORKING. Heat problems are one common cause of random reboots. If using 2.0.30, you might go back to 2.0.29 or .27 .30 really should not have been released in the state that it was in (IMHO). .31 might be out in a couple of weeks from wh

Re: Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > > The problem I have right now (and this showed up long before I started Check the voltages from the power supply, some older cases tend to fall a bit low and will cause exactly this, should be close to 5 and close to 12. Jason

Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Hi, A couple of people here (including myself) are trying to set up a router (IP forwarder really) based on Debian. We have an old 486 (it's a Cyrix 486-40) with 4 MB of RAM for the router. According to what I have found on the web, this should do the work. We have installed Debian usi