On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 10:41, betty wrote: > i got this weird message when i went to shutdown my rh 9.0 machine that > is at my cabin this week.( i have to shutdown because i am only there > every few weeks and the electricity is more than eccentric, freq. lose > an hour a week) > > call trace > > system_call > [kernel] > 0x33 > (0xc6073fc0) > code > bad EIP value > > does that make any sense? > it just stayed there at the 'bad EIP value' line. so i had to manually > push the button to turn it off. > as a note; this is a pretty squirrelly motherboard/ with an amd celeron > processor. it was always shutting down on the windoze side (dual boot) > like, every hour. > it still worked after this and doesn't do anything weird when it's > running, so i'll probably just leave well enough alone. never shuts down > on the linux side. ;-) . just wondered what that was since it never > happened to my other 3 linux boxen. ----- don't know which distro you are using but if you have redhat, you could boot off the cd and run memtest - It's likely to be either bad ram or a bad processor Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss