Re: new machine: what's wrong?
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0400, Jack wrote:
> Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's
> the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem)
>
> Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k,
> Debian installed on it.
>
> Win98 could be booted into DOS mode just fine. Win98 itself (even safe
> mode) and Win2k crashed when boot. Debian failed either. Here's error
> message I got from linux:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Calibrating delay loop ... 1468.01 BogoMIPS
> Memory 127064K/131008K available (1016k Kernel code, 416K reserved,
> 1680k data, 60k init, OK bigmem)
> Dentry hash table entries: 262144(order 9, 2048k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072(order 7, 512k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 32768(order 5, 128k)
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 87fe15a8
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010[<c011edb0>]
> EFLAGS: 00010283
> eax:ffffffff ebx:87fe1560 ecxc024cc84 edx c01d57c0
> esi:c01d20d7 edi:c01d57c1 ebpc7f317a0 esp: c0229f90
> ds 0018 es 0018 ss:0018
> Process swapper(pid:0, processs nr:0, stackpage: c0229000)
> stack: ......
> ...... (numbers)
> Call Trace: [<6106000>] [<c01d57c0>]
> [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
> Code: 8b 73 48 8b 7c 24 38 fc ac
> ae 75 08 84 c0 75 88 31 c0 eb 04
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
> ps. the memory works fine on my old machine, although the old
> motherboard only supports pc100.
But your memory does support PC133? Maybe it just claims to support
it. Don't laugh - the german Computer magazine "c't" tested a bunch of
RAMs to check if the SPD was programmed correctly. On
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctspd.shtml they got a nice tool to check
your's. Of course it's in german but if you want to I would be able to
translate the important stuff. This is not a commom memory test, but a
test to see if the SPD is programmed according to the Specs.
You could try to borrow some other memory (PC133!) and see if it does
make any change.
You could also try to boot a Floppy-Linuy like
http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/
http://www.toms.net/rb/
and see if they boot with your hardware.
If all that doesn't help then I guess you have to check every single
piece of hardware and replace it for testing.
HTH,
Phil
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