Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:39:18 +0100 (MET) | From | Stephan Meyer <> | Subject | pentium bug continued [slightly offtopic] |
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I have something very strange to report.
I successfully crashed my box under linux with f00fc7c8. I successfully crashed my box under win95 with f00fc7c8. Both hard-froze, no mouse movement, no keyboard LEDs... etc.
The machine did not hard-freeze under DOS!!!! Though the debug program locked, I was able to (a) toggle the keyboard LEDs with my keyboard and (b) reboot the machine by pressing ctrl-alt-del.
This is very strange when compared to the opinions that have been surfacing on this list lately.
I used the same method for crashing both DOS and windows. I started debug, assembled the byte sequence and pressed "g".
contents of /proc/cpuinfo: -------- processor : 0 cpu : 586 model : Pentium 75+ clock_speed : 120 MHz vendor_id : GenuineIntel stepping : 11 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid : yes wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 48.03 --------
This is an Olivetti P120S notebook with a mobile pentium in a socket.
Regards, - Stephan
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