Em Sex 20 Jun 2003 21:02, James Sparenberg escreveu:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:49, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
> > >99% likely to be a hardware problem, temperature or insufficient power.
> > >Install lm_sensors and see what it tells you.
> >
> > lm_sensors is good, but it has a problem (at least in my experience): it
> > gives strange values and you have to "tune" them, but since it's the only
> > app that reads temp, voltages and so on, you don't have a program to
> > compare the results with.
> > In windows is different: you have your mobo's software you can use to
> > tune up apps like Motherboard Monitor.
> >
> > Someone in the past suggested to use the values from the BIOS, but
> > unfortunately the processor temperature changes very much and the same
> > for voltages (they change less :-)), so you can't have the exact value
> > (you could guess, but you would achieve no more than 3 *C precision).
> >
> > Ideas?
> > THX
> > Olaf
>
> I'd run a test program against memory (say overnight while you sleep.)
> I've got a ram stick that will give you similar fun if you want it. It's
> not bad when you "reset" it, say, by rebooting... but over time some of
> the registers in the ram (not always the same one but one of the same
> ones. "freeze"  One thing Linux doesn't do well is map around bad ram
> sectors.  By product of cheap ram I guess no one is so broke they need
> to write this stuff *grin*.
>
>
> James
>
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Thanks for the comments.

So, will lm_sensors and memtest86 solve my problems? The motherboard is pretty 
old so i don't know if it has sensors on it...

The only memory test i know is memtest86. If someone has a better one
please let me know.

regards
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