Re: linux crashing on amd athlons?

[Magnus Naeslund(t)]

Måns Rullgård wrote:

> "Ameer Armaly" <ameer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > Hi all.
> > While installing linux on an amd athlon, the kernel is oopsing and shuting
> > down the computer at random places  within the install.  This is a custom
> > built kernel off of kernel.org I built, which I optimized for athlon then
> > i386 afterwards, but with no luck.
>
>
> Bad memory maybe.

Another tip with Athlons is to make sure that you have a good 
powersupply. We have had some random crashes with a fileserver using 
dual Athlons, and it turned out to be underpowered due to the disks 
taking too much juice...

Regards
Magnus


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