Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

[joeja@mindspring.com]

Thanks, 
    I have a heat sink and it is huge about 2 inches, plus fan. Plus another 4" fan in the case. (real nice case). 

    I think it is the memory, as yesterday my gcc was bombing with 'internel compiler error', which is usually a good mem tester.  So I started setting mem=64m and things worked better and the install went all the way through.  I think I need to slow my drams down a bit or add some delay in the bios settings.  

   The oops says something like 'kernel null pointer at address 0x000000'.  How do I 'catch' the output of an oops when the filesystem goes and I get ext2fs errors and am forced to reboot and manually run e2fsck?  

    Lastly with the mem=64M or mem=128M when I do a make dep, I get an error message that says Error 'missing seperator'.  What does that mean?  It stops in the drivers/net dir when I get this message?

Thanks
Joe

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > I just upgradede my system to an 1200Mhz AMD Athlon Thundirbird (266Mhz FSB) processor  / 512Meg of RAM, and an Asus kt7a motherboard.  > 
> It is oppsing left and right.  I recompiled the kernel with Athelon as the CPU but keep getting these oopses..
> 
> I also get these same problems while trying to install RH 7.1
> 
> Anyone know is this a supported processor / MB and has anyone had these problems?

Random oopses normally indicate faulty board cpu or ram (and the fault may 
even just be overheating or dimms not in the sockets cleanly). I doubt its
the board design or model that is the problem, you probably jut have a faulty
component somewhere if its oopsing randomly even during installs and stuff

memtest86, and heatsink compound may be your best friends