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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Darryl Okahata wrote:

> > Ok, I got my replacement K6-200 yesterday, after the distributor tried to say
> > there was nothing wrong with the old chip (because they couldn't make it fail
> > running windoze for a couple of hours... :(
> 
> [ Sorry if this is old news, but I haven't seen this mentioned, yet. ]
> 
>      Just FYI, a Linux user has a page claiming that K6 systems with
> more than 32MB RAM exhibit "signal 11" problems:
> 
> 	http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug.html
> 
> Instructions for "reproducing" the problem on either Linux or WinNT are
> given (although "make world" is probably good enough as anything ;-).

Interesting...

The two systems I had problems with had 64 meg of parity memory, however,
I tried 32 meg of EDO and it didn't make any difference.  And I briefly
had one 64 meg system that worked.


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