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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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 -- Leonardo S� leo at netserver dot cjb dot net
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