Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 1999 02:51:01 -0500 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Denis Voitenko <suffix@addr.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:00 AM Subject: re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix
>Okay, so you folks have brought me to a conclusion that I can not >install RH5.2 on my system because the CPU gets overheated when >Linux "hits" it. Besides inventing methods of cooling off the CPU >there is a way of trying some other distribution of Linux. Well, >is there a way where I can trick RH to belive that the CPU isn't >overheated? Some BIOS trick? >/ >
agressive power management settings or a CPU cooler program/driver may help if the problem is overheating, however I doubt that they would actually solve the problem, at best they would work around it, for a while at least. If it is overheating you better get a better CPU fan and some heat tranfer compound. However I don't think that this is an overheating problem. Overheating CPU's usually don't start to die for a couple to a few minutes after bootup and even then the actual time of its death would be somewhat random. It takes time for a CPU to overcook itself. If it were heating problems serious enougth to be causing immediate crashes then I doubt very much that any OS would survive on that machine unless it loaded a CPU cooler driver immediately upon bootup. Before running out and trying to diagnose a hardware problem, I'd suggest first another distrib. The system on a floppy that I've heard about lately sounds like a good bet. A slackware boot/root combo would also be good
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