"Colin Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote in the other day detailing the overwhelming amount of erradic > behaviour my new system (K62-550,128MB,16M Vid) > > I have a tyan trinity AGP motherboard. > > I've finally got the network card working....and the systems general > stability seems ok...(admittedly I haven't done much...browsed the web and > such...) But it still won't let me compile the kernel without crashing. In > my message the other day I said that everytime I tried it would bomb with a > signal 6....at a diffrent place each time. Counting the rest of the general > system instability I decided to follow some advice and run a comprehensive > memory test....and it passed. > > So now I'm wondering if anyone else could share a few ideas as to problems. > All my peripherals work (which is very few) and there are no IRQ conflicts. > The memory test (as I said before) passed, and the HD is brand new, fresh > out of the box. Here's the detailed list of parts...in case anyone can pick > out a known-to-be-a-bitch part. > > Tyan Trinity AGP Motherboard w/ AMD K6-2 550Mz > Diamond Stealth SG540 16M video. > 128M SDRAM (1 new 64M, and 1 old - both 100mhz - both passed memtest86) > 10GB Maxtor HD > Kingston EtherX KNE100TX 10/100 > > I am running Debian 2.2 - I know it's frozen and not stable, but I couldn't > make the kernel compile when I installed a fresh slink either...and potato > is just so much more trick! > > And here is what I get when the kernel compile dies.
this is most probably not a compiler problem. When I tried to overclock a Celeron 300A, I also had these problems - only when compiling. It seems that gcc is "exercising" the system the most. -- Felix Natter
