On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:37 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:41:50 -0700, Robert N. Eaton wrote
> > joe@actionline.com wrote:
> > > What in the world might be causing this and how can I fix it?
> > >
> > Just a thought: How old and how powerful is your power supply?
> > Sometimes a failing PS, or one that is asked to do too much, can be
> > the source of really strange computer behavior. -Bob Eaton
>
> Thanks for responding with at least some suggestions on things to
> check. The computer is about a year old and has a top-of-the-line
> Antec case and 350 watt power supply. The problem occurred even
> after a reboot with no programs or processes running other than
> just what boots up with a free restart.
>
> Still hoping someone will respond and provide some guidance
> on how to do a memory check.
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I know on a Red Hat / Fedora type system, you would stick in CD 1 and boot that disk and at the first test you would type, memtest86
I would expect something similar would work for other distributions but simply don't know the answer.
Craig
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