F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Aug 31 08:48:37 UTC 2014
On 08/31/2014 06:12 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have been trying to build a usable PC out of old - but previously
> unused hardware (motherboards, CPUs, RAM, 80GB Seagate disks, power
> supplies) - but whatever combination I use I continually get core dumps
> - I have reinstalled on numerous occasions and sometimes the PC works
> for hours without a problem and then fails - but quite frequently it
> fails on bootup! I have tried with 2G RAM but that had problems so I
> went back to 1G thinking that one SIMM might be faulty but no
> combination works for any reasonable length of time.
Which CPU are you using? Unless it's a hardware defect somewhere, I'm
inclined to believe you could be trying to run an incompatible kernel.
Ralf
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