From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) Subject: Re: 99p9/99p10 crashes my system Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 11:51:14 GMT
te@ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Thomas Esser) writes:
>Since, my linux crashes down unexpectedly after 5 - 30 min.
>of working. The system completely stands. (no core)
>After such a crash, it takes 1 - 3 attempts to get the machine
>to reboot correctly. After power off/on, the machine (oftenly)
>stopps booting, and the BIOS sends a non-stopping sequence of
>3 beeps. This means "basic 64 k RAM error". I get into this
>problem after a systemcrash. If occurres 0 - 2 times until
>the reboot succedes.
>This looks like a Hardware-Problem, but it did not occur with
>previous versions of linux (99p7) and it does not occur when running
>DOS. The update of the kernel to 99p10 did not help.
>Please reply, if you have some hints.
The same happens on my 486DX25 machine.
Try disabling the external cache. It gets terrible slow,
but doesn't freeze anymore. Hopefully 0.99.11 will solve the problem.