Freezing during kernel compile

[Brian McGroarty <brian@robotattack.com>]

My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian
2.4.x kernel.


Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident.



Usually, shortly before freezing, I will see this dmesg, or one like
it <<


Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffc
 printing eip:
c01220ad
*pde = 00001063
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c01220ad>]
EFLAGS: 00010216
eax: ef678e04   ebx: c01fe4b8   ecx: c1d9f444   edx: c1d9f444
esi: e67fd1e0   edi: ee1ecbe0   ebp: 00000074   esp: dfda5e94
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process as (pid: 7429, stackpage=dfda5000)
Stack: 00000074 c1d9f444 c01fe4b8 e67fd1e0 ee1ecbe0 00000000 0000011c
c1d9f444
       ef678e04 ef678d60 e8916180 c011f22e e67fd1e0 400ee000 00000000
400eef10
       ee1ecbe0 ffffffff 00000000 c011f317 ee1ecbe0 e67fd1e0 400eef10
00000000
Call Trace: [<c011f22e>] [<c011f317>] [<c010fa54>] [<c010fbb4>]
[<c010fa54>] [<c011ff5e>] [<c011c907>]
       [<c0106e1c>]

Code: 50 e8 4d f2 ff ff 89 c3 83 c4 0c 85 db 74 74 8b 7b 18 c1 ef

>>

(The above was while using the 2.4.8-686 kernel-image.) 


My motherboard is an ABit VT6X4 with the VIA686A chipset. I have 768
megs of PC133 ECC memory. The problem persists with no extra hardware
but an nVidia GeForce2MX in the machine.


Where should I begin to look for a solution?