On Tuesday 30 March 2004 22:27, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Thanks for the help so far. As soon as I figure out something that works
> > I'll definitely share it with the group.
>
> I wonder if it's a faulty motherboard or CPU or RAM. Did you try
> testing the memory? memtest86 is pretty good for that. You might try
> letting it run overnight, because sometimes intermittent errors are
> tough to smoke out.
>
I finally got time to try your suggestion and run memtest86. (I _thought_
I'd already done that a year ago, but I realized that was on a different
box.) Well, it ran for about an hour and then crashed with an unexpected
interrupt. I searched for that problem on Google, and it seems that's a
pretty solid indication of a hardware problem, so I'm going to try swapping
out the RAM and see if that fixes it. It still seems strange, though, that I
don't have that problem on Mandrake 8. Could it be that Mandrake 8 is
configured incorrectly, to not see all the memory that's actually there?
Someone also mentioned that it could be a heat problem, but that seems highly
unlikely to be a distro-dependent condition.
Vaughn
> My next recommendation would be to go to Mandrake mailing lists, first
> the users' list, then the developers' list (assuming it's public, which
> I don't know).
>
> If you don't get anywhere there, I'd suggest the Linux kernel mailing
> list after trying the latest kernel (preferably 2.6, but 2.4 might also
> be acceptable); some boards/chipsets have bugs, so you might get a
> suggestion for a work-around or be able to help diagnose the bug in the
> first place. linux-kernel FAQ at <http://www.tux.org/lkml/> (but since
> it's so high-traffic, be careful and a quick perusal of
> <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> to brush up might
> be in order).
>
> Good luck.
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