CPUs and segmentation faults

[matrixcubed]

Pentium 100mHz
ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, rev 2.1
24MB RAM (72pin EDO SIMM)
RH 7.3

I've recently added a Pentium 200MMX, underclocked to 133 (for purposes of heat-testing) on my firewall/router system. I am just setting up the system again, and when I attempt to compile Apache (1.3), I get 'segmentation faults' during the 'make' process.

I haven't used this 200MMX CPU long enough to know if it is simply overheating and dying (when I check it, it's hot to the touch, one cannot touch it for long), or if the CPU is faulty.

I've placed a larger heatsink on the chip, though this doesn't really seem to help matters much. There is also a small cheap fan on it, which I am going to replace today to see if it makes matters better.

Any suggestions in the meantime? I hope I can use this faster CPU, even though this motherboard will only permit clock speeds of 166mHz tops (without MMX). I don't have any experience with flaky CPUs to be able to identify if this is my case.

Thanks in advance.

[mdwatts]

Could it be due to the amount of memory or lack thereof?

Do have other 72pin EDO memory that you could at least temporarily put in to see if it could memory related?

[matrixcubed]

Well it's using RAM that it had before I swapped CPUs, and that had been running for over a month. I'm fairly certain the RAM is fine, perhaps it's because the newer CPU runs too hot?

On a side note, the bus speed is still at 66mHz, so it shouldn't be that one of the cards (only VGA and 2 NICs, both PCI) is overclocked too hard.

I've replaced the fan and heatsink, it seems to run a little cooler now, but I still get seg. faults. I'm going to try to reinstall the OS, in case one of the previous failures comprimised some system file's stability as a whole.

More to come!

Thanks for replying.