Re: system instablity

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Sourcerer wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> 
> > john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> > >
> > > Ed C. writes:
> 
> <rm>
> 
> >       I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it,
> > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I
> > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not the only one to
> > tell me its not Debian software thats causing the problem.
> 
> I had 3 GPF's recently with Hamm, once while in dselect (after a long
> d'load), and twice just "idling". I assumed it wasn't ram, because I
> successfully compiled a kernel.  I went into Bios and "normalized" it,
> including shutting off some shadow ram -- but left it PnP. The problem
> hasn't returned. In betwee GPF 2 and 3, I had 1.3 installed and that
> didn't fault. Go figure.
> 
> You may want to review install.txt and "normalize" your bios. It can't
> hurt.
> 


	Thanks, I *did* have some of the shadow ram turned on.  I've now
disabled all shadow ram, maybe that will solve my problem, <fingers
crossed>.  :-)


-- 
Ed C.