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Re: Need help: faulty H.W. or Linux system problem



"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
> 
> r>> Now for the good part: At the same time, on the same machine (dual boot
> r>> Linux+Win98), Windoze98 is starting to go totally berserk, many times
> r>> reporting at boot time about registry problem (and restart needed...) or
> r>> simply spontaneously giving it's famous "blue screens". Occasionally we
> r>> did have problems with Win98 but not at that frequency.
> r>>
> r>> My brother, who is an MCP and has resources for fault diagnostics, says
> r>> it might be a faulty memory, although the memory passes the BIOS check
> r>> at boot (64MB).
> 
> BIOS check isn't worth electrons that are spent on it's displaying. Try
> something like memtest program or one of windows utilities about it
> (checkit?). I know there are hardware memory testers that do *real* tests,
> but I know nothing about where to find one.
> 
> The best crash-test for HW is compiling a dozen of kernels, surely :) -
> but if you see things you've described, it's clear you have problems even
> without it.
> 

Forgot to mention it earlier, but as a solution (I thought somethin' got
corrupted) I tried to compile a new kernel (same 2.2.10) but it kept
crashing, exiting at different stages, Though I cant quote it's messages
now. Fact is I couldn't compile a new kernel. Think it's related ? 

> It could be also disk problems or cooling problems - check
> processor cooler, if it works bad, system starts to behave really weird...
> 

checked that (cooling problems), "nothing appropriate"... .

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