Re: Need help: faulty H.W. or Linux system problem

[Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo]

r>> Now for the good part: At the same time, on the same machine (dual boot
r>> Linux+Win98), Windoze98 is starting to go totally berserk, many times
r>> reporting at boot time about registry problem (and restart needed...) or
r>> simply spontaneously giving it's famous "blue screens". Occasionally we
r>> did have problems with Win98 but not at that frequency. 
r>> 
r>> My brother, who is an MCP and has resources for fault diagnostics, says
r>> it might be a faulty memory, although the memory passes the BIOS check
r>> at boot (64MB).

BIOS check isn't worth electrons that are spent on it's displaying. Try
something like memtest program or one of windows utilities about it
(checkit?). I know there are hardware memory testers that do *real* tests,
but I know nothing about where to find one.

The best crash-test for HW is compiling a dozen of kernels, surely :) -
but if you see things you've described, it's clear you have problems even
without it.

It could be also disk problems or cooling problems - check
processor cooler, if it works bad, system starts to behave really weird...

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