RE: General Protection Fault-I forgot

["Bradley D. Johnson" <johnson mail coastal udel edu>]

Well, I also had the sense that this seemed like a serious hardware
problem; but doesn't the fact that the computer works well when running
Windows almost discount this possibility?

Thanks,
Brad




On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Brian Patterson wrote:

> I had a similar problem on a PC that used a AMD processor.  I eventually
> upgraded the processor on the machine and the problem went away.  I always
> assumed it was a bad CPU.
> 
> - Brian Patterson
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bradley D. Johnson [SMTP:johnson mail coastal udel edu]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:51 AM
> > To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject:	General Protection Fault-I forgot
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I forgot to mention that it does not seems to matter what we do with the
> > computer in the short time that it stays alive.  For instance, if we boot
> > and let the computer sit at the text login screen, it will crash in 6-15
> > minutes.
> > 
> > Also, we disables APM in the BIOS--to no avail.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Bradley D. Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All:
> > > 
> > > My friend and I are having some trouble with a Redhat 6.1 install.
> > > Between us we have only done about five installations--so we are
> > relative
> > > newbies.
> > > 
> > > Heres the computer:
> > > PII with a 266 processor,  128 Megs of RAM, two 10 Gig drives.
> > > 
> > > The problem:
> > > After booting, the computer seems to work well (including X11); but it
> > > only works for a short time before it crashes with a General Protection
> > > Fault. Naturally the system locks up and a hard reboot is necessary
> > then.
> > > We timed the occurrence of this crash, and it happens between 6 minutes
> > and
> > > 15 minutes after booting.
> > > 
> > > We tried:
> > > We disabled gpm.  We removed one 64 Meg SIMM(we wondered if it might be
> > > flaky).
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, the computer will not stay alive long enough for us to
> > copy
> > > the screens of garbage that occur with the crash.  The beginning of the
> > > mesage reads,'general protection fault :6cb4.'
> > > 
> > > I am at a loss here, and we would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Brad
> > > 
> > >
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Bradley D. Johnson			Center for Applied 
johnson coastal udel edu		 Coastal Research
http://www.coastal.udel.edu/~johnson/
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