System panics on new ASUS TP4 pentium 90 system

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From: Robert Stuart
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:00

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hi all,
  I've just bought a new machine and started playing around in linux. 
[I'd better mention that DOS and Descent both have run ok on this machine
so far] Within a minute or two of booting the machine started giving
errors like these: 

trying to free non-existent swap-page
[0 21c 565]sys_sync: 1 dirty buffers not on dirty list

when moving around the dirs after a while ls stopped working and started 
giving seg faults and bus errors.

Most of the time the machine just crashed but one time it paniced and 
gave the following errors:

swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00080000)
trying to free space from unused swapdev
swap_free: weirdness
swap_free:swap_space map bad (entry 00020000)

Now, all this happened when booting off both floppys and similar problems 
occured when booting the system off the HDD (one from my previous 
machine).  I have two pairs of boot floppys and root disks and no ammount 
of shuffling changes anything.  The kernel is finding the PCI devices etc.

I'm inclined to think it is bad memory.  Any suggestions?

System specs:
ASUS P/I-P55TP4 motherboard with PnP bios
3 PCI, 3 ISA, onboard Busmastering EIDE
Pentium 90
16 Mb RAM (I'm not sure if the is parity or not... I'm going to find out)
512K cache
1 Gb Quantum EIDE drive, 1 Conner 252 Mb drive.


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From: Robert Stuart <rstu@bssssq.edu.au>
Subject: System panics on new ASUS TP4 pentium 90 system
Date: 1995/08/04
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