Memtest was a good first step. Sounds like it's now time for cpuburn. That is likely to reveal what memtest cannot and also completely divorces you from the OS in diagnosing the problem. Google for cpuburn and you'll hit it first time. Tom Brinkman recommended it the other day, so it comes with high endorsement.
Here's his orginal message: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg91074.html Good luck Brian On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 19:03, David Guntner wrote: > Jonathan Dlouhy grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Dave, it definetly sounds like a hardware problem. It sounds like > > something gets heated up after 24 hours then fails. It could be a one > > of several things. Don't flame me for this, but, have you tried a > > different OS to see if it does the same thing? > > That would require an awful *lot* of work to install something else, which > is not exactly something I'm too keen on right now... :-) However, as it > *has* been runing Mandrake reliably for many months (close to a year) now, > I don't think it's an OS thing. Not a flame, just some info. :-) > > > If so, then it's got to be a hardware problem. I would investigate the > > RAM, then the motherboard. I don't know how much ram you have, but if > > you could beg, borrow or steal some other ram, swap yours out then > > run it for a couple of days. If it doesn't lock up, then I guess we > > know the problem. If it still does it it's time to look at the mb. > > After that I'm out of ideas. > > I've got 256M of RAM in the machine, to answer your (implied) question. I > don't know anyone with memory that I could borrow. :-) As I mentioned in > my earlier message, I've run Memtest-86 (you boot it up from a diskette) on > this machine, and it doesn't find any problems with memory (when I was > experiencing a problem where the machine started spontaneously rebooting > from time to time for no apparent reason, Memtest-86 identified bad memory > and when I replaced that SIMM module, the reboots stopped - so I trust this > utility). > > Thanks for the reply! > > --Dave > -- > David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! > http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server > for PGP Public key > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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