Very Computer

Greetings -
  I have been trying for several weeks to install linux on a shiny
new machine running on an AMD 5x86-133 processor, unfortunately,
the machine dies, often during boot, sometimes on exiting fdisk, and
if not then, then after rebooting when I try to run mke2fs... I have
been using a modified version of the Slackware distribution, with
a 2.0.0 kernel.  I have even tried to change motherboards (someone
indicated to me that this might be the problem...), but to no avail.
Currently, the motherboard is a Soyo SY-4SAW2 with an SiS 85C496
chipset.  Common errors have are:
 Segmentation fault, unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual addres (x), idle task may not sleep (about five times),
and several others.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...

   Thanks in advance,

      Bryan Jurish

        -(using my girlfriends account at the moment - mail to

Using one for the past year almost, with absolutely *NO* problems
 at all - with 36M of RAM, it runs like a charm :)  It sounds like
 you might have a problem with one/all of your memory SIMMs. There's
 nothing wrong with the MB as far as my experience goes. The fact,
 however, is that you may have encountered two faulty MB's - I know
 it sounds kinda "improbable" but friends' "MB horror-stories" tell
 otherwise...

  Dimitri

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