2 kernel panics

[Rumko]

Well this computer is used as a router/server ... and the next best
available machine is a pentium 100 ... ... kinda a serious downgrade
which i dont want ... i had openbsd before which probably has patches
for this or what?

On 9/30/05, David Cuthbert <dacut at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rumko wrote:
> > well ... as for the mainboard ... found 2 VIA chips (VT82C597AT and
> > VT82C586B) don't know anything else about the mainboard, the processor
> > is "CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (167.05-MHz 686-class CPU)", has 128MB of RAM
>
> Unfortunately, many Cyrix-based systems from this era are questionable
> -- they apparently played fast and loose with the specs, resulting in a
> lot of memory corruption errors.
>
> If you have access to one and have a bit of time to kill, try moving
> everything over to a similar Pentium or K6-2/3 system and see if the
> problems go away.
>