This is a QDI Advance 5 with Intel PIII/500 and 1/8 gig ram. It's got some kind of hard drive in it too, and a network card and stuff. -chris
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook > > in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine > > frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW. > > Where should I start looking? > > -chris > > you can start specifying all the hardware, i found that [EMAIL PROTECTED] > would > lock my BP6 *EVERY SINGLE TIME* it was like clockwork. so if you have a > BP6 ..replace it. or take the 2nd cpu out. see > http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/bp6-linux.html for more info. > > you can also get a program called cpuburn to burn in the cpu, cpuburn > also comes with a chipset tester(only supports a few chipsets). there > are several memory checkers available(see freshmeat) > > if you don't have a BP6, run stress tests on it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a great > program to stress the cpu/cache/memory/IDE controllers/hdds. for a > 128MB machine 7 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] running at the same time for 2-3 > days is a good test i've found. for 256MB maybe increase it to 12. etc > etc. (im sure that rc5 is just as good as seti but ive never tried it > myself) > > run this in console mode, make sure there is no X at all running. if it > passes the test, then run (from inside X) x11perf -all (cant believe i > remembered that command! last week i couldnt..) that will run a series > of graphics tests, it can take hours to complete, if the machine does > not lock up, run it again, or maybe try loading it a 2nd time and run 2 > copies(not sure if that would work) if that all passes .....then it may > be safe to say the system is pretty stable and just xseti is buggy(which > last i saw their readme strongly iterates it is beta/alpha software) > > nate > > -- > ::: > ICQ: 75132336 > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
