On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:45, FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/13/2004 9:18:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> craigwhite@azapple.com writes:
> 
> I had that happen on one of my Shuttle compacts and it turned out that
> the memory went bad. 
> 
>  
> Well, I question if it's the memory, because it's good make memory (Crucial), 
> and it worked fine until I installed Win2000.  Oddly, it works fine (reboot 
> aside) at FSB of 133, or 165 (the vastly overclockable Duron 1600 rules!), but 
> the moment I flip a jumper to raise it another MHz, it blows out with hangs 
> and half the memory fail at self-test.  And it's always the exact failure-- 
> picture turns off, drive clicks, reboot.  It typically happens once a day, at a 
> random time (if it happens in the middle of my favourite programme... let's just 
> say the box will explore the amazing world of the Salt River)
> 
> It's not the mobo or processor, or the video.  All of which were recently 
> swapped.  I wonder if there's a "Proper Function" patch I don't have.  I know, I 
> know, it's mandrake-9.2-disc1.iso, but I'm not in the mood to take the system 
> down and back up in a few weeks when I can get a 2.6 disc :)  I think tho I'll 
> pull out the old discs and put anything on.  I'm fed up with the win2000 
> wallpaper
> 
> I'd prefer nVidia drivers on disc because I know their Windows drivers are 
> huge, and I only have a 44k connection.
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why question when you can test - that's how I knew it was bad memory.

boot from I would presume most any distro cd and install of installing,
run the memtest program

Craig