-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 May 2002 12:17 am, civileme wrote:
> Check to see if your memory is OK (memtest-x86.bin is in the /images > directoryt and can be dd'ed to a bootable floppy) > > Double-check the boot to make sure mem=nopentium is in each and every > linux boot append line. (Yeah, a slight difference in mem paging > between K7s and Pentiums of all generations) > > But if it has been OK for months it is more likely hardware--remove > the memory sticks and burnish the contacts with an eraser and blow > the dust out of the slots, too. Those sorts or hardware problems are > the MOST common. This is very true - the first sign I got that my old machine was misbehaving was two freezes in succession. I thought 'Linux doesn't do this', opened the machine up, removed dust, made sure everything was sitting properly in its sockets and, on the third reboot, the motherboard blew and took various other things with it :/ And, on the new machine, I got a 'CPU not found' message on boot; it (an Athlon XP 2000+) had failed but, being only a week old, I got a replacement gratis next day. - From my experience Linux _is_ hard on hardware and tests both ends of the 'bathtub curve' (imagine age of component along X axis and probability of failure along Y axis ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE88KCrCv59vFiSU4YRAmeMAKDCkf8UVmyynT6FRTfkfr/EaRK22QCgrm+4 9N/Dg109lf9Ij6pepf0FBKc= =etYb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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