Random crashes on XP AND normal operation on Linux, or pre-XP OS's send me looking for my spare memory and testers.
Cheers, Dave Watkins President Calgary Linux Users Group W: www.clug.ca E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] V: 403.701.5746 -----Original Message----- From: Mitchell Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:19 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Random computer crashing Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure if I need to go that far just yet. I'll wait for my CHKDSK to finish. See, this computer is only about two years old, it was custom built at a shop, and is very high-end as far as computers from late 2004 go. So there's no reason to suspect bad memory -- or is there? On 5/8/06, Dave Watkins - CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mitchell, Try swapping out the memory with known good stuff. XP seems to have an innate ability to sniff out flakey memory. You might try another power supply also. Just put 2 boxes side by side and use the other's power supply. Saves having to pull the supply out. HTH Cheers, Dave Watkins President Calgary Linux Users Group W: www.clug.ca E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> V: 403.701.5746 -----Original Message----- From: Mitchell Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:08 PM To: CLUG General; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clug-talk] Random computer crashing Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help -- Today I had to reinstall "that other operating system" on my dads computer. Now, whenever the XP Setup got about half way through "Copying files to your hard disk" the computers PC-Speaker made a disgusting croak noise and died solemly. Like, the entire machine just went a cold shutdown like someone hit the powerbar. Now, I tried my legit copy of XP, my pirated copy, everything. Nothing worked. Finally, I decided to boot onto my PCLinuxOS livecd and wipe out the partitions that way instead of using WinXP-Setups' built-in watered down partitioner. Everything worked, the install worked, no more dying, nothing. Just worked. I figured that the Windows partitioner was having trouble creating the filesystem properly, right? Well, now, here I am at the machine, and all of a sudden, it croaks, and dies again! Right in the middle of a huge video-rip. Sounds intense, but for this machine, its not really. Now, right away I think, "Oh, I'm overloading it" - well, not the case, because the WinXP-Setup would always die in the exact same place. So that's kind of a coincidence. So does anyone know what this is? The sound the PC Speaker makes is kind of a loud-low note, then fades out and the machine dies. Thanks! -- pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF 9091 C422 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying -- pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF 9091 C422
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