Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 May 1996 10:31:56 -0400 | From | "Gregory L. Galloway" <> | Subject | BAD CPU --> SIG11 |
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Folks,
I tried every combination of clock cycles and wait states in the CMOS setup but could not solve my signal 11 problems. I borrowed all kinds of memory and it still did not go away.
Since the machine is owned by work, I went and begged for a whole new motherboard (thinking it was the cache or control circuitry between the cpu and memory). The service guy found a spare AMD DX4/120 lying around with no MB. I replaced my AMD DX2/80 with it and what do you know but my signal 11 problems have gone away. I reset the CMOS setup back to the fastest settings and everything is still working fine.
I can only guess that the AMD DX2/80 was marginal. It probably should have been marked DX2/66.
The service guy went and ordered me a Cyrix 5X86/120 w/ a new FIC MB just to be safe. I'm running that now with no problems.
All of this was with Linux 1.3.97.
Greg -- Gregory L. Galloway Research Scientist I
http://eoeml-www.gtri.gatech.edu/~gregg/
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