crc error on bootup

[Rick Rosinski]

Got a strange anomoly happening.
I woke up this morning, saw my computer, and saw that the mouse didn't work.  
Everything was frozen.  Tried rebooting, and upon loading the kernel, got a 
crc error, and the system halted.  Tried booting from a linux boot disk.  
That yielded the same crc error.  Tried booting from a Windows floppy, and it 
said "invalid command prompt".  I turned off the system, waited a few hours, 
and then tried again.  The system booted fine without the floppy, and all is 
working again.  Could this be a RAM problem, or an overheating CPU problem?  
Or what?  I have an AMD k63, 128MB + 256MB DIMM PC 100 ram memory chips, and 
I replaced the dying CPU fan a month ago.  Everything was working fine until 
last night / this morning.


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Rick Rosinski
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