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It's 20 Jun 97  00:47,
We'll return to bnh@aughra.glasswings.com.au and All's
discussion of *HELP! -> AMD K5 and linux!*

 bn> now since I've installed debian before with no problems I can only
 bn> assume it is the AMD K5 chip (or perhaps the memory??)

 bn> Has ANYONE else had horrible problems like this?
 bn> Can Anyone help me please? this is most distressing (esp after having
 bn> spent hard earned money to upgrade it all).

Hmm, it almost sounds like some sort of memory cache bug or
incompatibility.  Try turning off the secondary RAM cache, see if that
makes any difference.  If it doesn't, try turning off the on board
cache.  Your symptoms sound almost exactly like a laptop at work which
had a  buggy cache on the processor.  Worked fine under DOS and Win 3.x,
but as soon as we installed Win 95 it kept crashing with wierd errors.
The distributor suggested turning off the on board cache, and all was
well.  They've since replaced the processor for free.

If either of these work, you can keep running like that, or see if you
can get your hardware exchanged...

Other things to look for - possible dud RAM, incompatible hardware (try
substituting hardware from your old system to look for this)...

... Will that be cache or chkdsk?
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