On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 21:18 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > John Lichter wrote: > > Jon, > > > > > > > > I wouldn't have a clue about how to do what you said. John > OK, when the system is first booting up, right after the > manufacturer's splash screen (if any), it says : > GRUB loading, please wait... > > Hit ESC at that time, and you get a menu. Generally the last > item on the menu is the Memtest86 program, just hit the down > arrow key to highlight that entry and hit return. This > diagnostic will run forever if it finds no errors, otherwise it > will list what it has found wrong, at a fairly technical level. > But, what you are looking for is the presence or absence of > error reports. It may also be that your BIOS settings have > gotten corrupted, or that someone overclocked the computer for > gaming, and the settings are not correct for proper operation. > Most BIOS setup screens have some option to return all settings > to default, you might try that if you haven't made any special > settings for specific hardware compatibility. > > Jon
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