RE: [Sheflug] H/W fault?

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 14:46 03/05/2000 +0100, Paul Sims wrote:
>You may be correct then. The problem being reported in virtual memory space
>is odd, but it may indicate a dodgy register in the CPU. My first guess is
>that the mobo shouldn't come into play with virtual mem - it's the OS which
>supplies the mapping of CPU address space to physical RAM & swap,
>presumably a lot of register switching is involved. I'd borrow a CPU from
>another box to try in your  pc & run your CPU in the other to see if the
>problem moves with the CPU or stops with the mobo.


It looks like you may be on the right track. I went out and bought a new 
mobo intending to charge it to the company if it did the trick but it does 
something similar (keeps rebooting when it gets to the same point actually).
Ah well, I promised the kids I'd build them their own PC... looks like I've 
got the first component now then ;) (at least it supports a 124meg bus :))


Steve


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