Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:17:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Matt Bernstein <mb/> | Subject | Re: GA-7DX+ crashes |
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On Aug 14 Alan Cox wrote: >On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:12, Matt Bernstein wrote: >> We're very much at a loss as to why the 60 new PCs we've bought largely >> don't run Linux (various 2.4 kernels including 2.4.19, limbo1-BOOT) for >> very long without crashing. One of them seems to work OK; its /proc/pci is >> identical, but the batch number on the southbridge seems one lower--is >> this dodgy VIA hardware again? We'll be trying a different IDE controller >> next, but 60 of those ain't cheap.. > >My immediate assumption would be a batch of bad hardware or faulty bios
The former seems to be the case, after talking to Gigbayte. (We got Windows to crash much more spectacularly after stressing it a little harder--that gets the company who sold them to us to come over personally :)
Thanks very much--hopefully our dual-boot lab will continue to exist for the next academic year!
Matt
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