Re: General Protection Fault-I forgot

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

That's a good point.  I am not certain if this CPU had a fan, but I will
check tonight.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Yehuda Feinsilber wrote:
> Looks like an overheating problem. Have you checked the CPU fan?
> 
> Yehuda Feinsilber
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley D. Johnson" <johnson mail coastal udel edu>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Cc: "David Mathew Thompson" <dt mail coastal udel edu>
> Sent: ??? ????? 14 ??? 2000 15:51
> 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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