Segfault Suggestions?

[Anton Markov]

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I am no expert, but the last time I had random segfaults, was because my
FSB (Front Side Bus) was overclocked, but my memory and CPU were not.  I
was sold a cheap motherboard, which didn't support my newer CPU speed.

The lesson is:
Try to go into bios, and underclock your CPU (decreasing the FSB
frequency if possible).  If that fails, try (and do this at your own
risk to the hardware, but it may be dying anyways) to slightly increase
the voltage setting for the CPU.

The memtest may have passed, because some operations use only certain
CPU/memory routines.  When I had my problem, Windows would work without
a single glitch, while Linux would constantly die on me.

Peter King wrote:
> 
> So: If it isn't the software and it isn't the memory, what should I
> look at next?
> 
> If the answer is "the CPU" -- how do I test that? I don't have a
> spare PII lying around...
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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