Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:45 PM +0000 11/20/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>On Monday 20 November 2006 03:08, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>> This description tells me that something is definitely not right with
>> memory after the crash. Have you checked with memtest86 to see if that
>> reports anything?
>
>Thanks for the suggestion -
>I assumed the memory was OK since I have never had problems
>with Windows XP or i386 Fedora.
>But I've downloaded the memtest86+ rpm,
>and will run this tonight.

Just boot from the install CD and use it's memory test.


>> You also might try reducing the speed of the memory and see if that has
>> any affect.
>
>How do I reduce the memory speed?
>Do you mean reduce the CPU speed with something like cpufreq?

BIOS settings.  Some "Advanced" page.

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>Yes, I haven't touched the CPU or heat sink.
>Unfortunately I'm not sure how to measure the CPU temperature.
>I'm compiled a kernel with ACPI=>Processor=>Thermal Zone enabled,
>but it doesn't seem to show anything in /proc/acpi on this machine.
 ...

Use lmsensors, or look in the BIOS settings.
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