RE: General Protection Fault-I forgot

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

It is my friends computer, but it is a Quantex computer with an Intel PII
CPU.  I am afraid that I don't know anything about the motherboard.

If this failure occurred less frequently or less catastrophically then I
might be inclined to suspect the CPU.  Given the nature of these crashes,
though, I can't imagine that Windows would survive.

This, of course, begs the question: Is there some hardware that is being
annoyed in Linux and not in Windows?

Thanks,
Brad




On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Brian Patterson wrote:

> Since I don't really care for Windows I'd be inclined to say that it doesn't
> suprise me that Windows would work on a PC with a bad processor BUT - my PC
> didn't run Windows 95 either.  It would occasionally lock up.  NT on that
> same machine would not load at all.  I'd say you are correct in assuming the
> problem lies elsewhere.  Just curious but what type of PC is it?  CPU and
> motherboard?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bradley D. Johnson [SMTP:johnson mail coastal udel edu]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:07 AM
> > To:	'redhat-install-list redhat com'
> > Subject:	RE: General Protection Fault-I forgot
> > 
> > 
> > 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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> > > > > johnson coastal udel edu		 Coastal Research
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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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