On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:42 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote:
> Hey Tom,
> That sure was a heavy weight reply ...
> But that warning on http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ sure is scary,,, I
dont think i > wanna go ahead and stress my new system's cpu :)
It's sort'a jus'a "standard lawyer required disclaimer". He's
(Robert) just another hand like you or me. My personal opinion is that
low hurdle tests like memtest86 are only useful for checkin a system
before _really_ stress testing your hardware. Cpuburn has been a
hardware (ie, overclockers) tool for some years now ... highly regarded
as "the last word", "the acid test". So if there's a good time to test
a system, the best is when its new. Better sooner than later ....;>
>
> and by the way while I was waiting for replies about my problem I
> tried installing LM 7.2 and it worked just fine,,, it didn't complain
> about anything !!!
> so I guess its not a memory problem after all ?? or could it be that
> 7.2 was fooled as well ??!!
Could be ?? Civileme posted just recently that pushin the hardware
too far could be a problem for highly optimized, 'hands on hardware'
Linux (to paraphrase). I haven't experienced it, but I respect his
opinions. Still, A stock, ready made store bought system, runnin any
OS, should be able to pass Cpuburn ... or IMO, the hardware is
defective/marginal.
OTOH, I find the increasing number of posts here and elsewhere that
"ML 7.x runs fine, but 8.x won't install/load/work..." to be a little
troubling. I really think it has more to do with the decreasing
quality of current hardware, than the increasing 'tightness' of
(Mandrake) Linux. Seems to me M$ has too much influence on
proliferating marginal hardware, and not browser monopoly's. If Billy
can encourage junk hardware, he's got a captive audience for Windoze.
BTW, I've been usin ReiserFS for almost 2 years with -0- problems.
The only other j-fs I tried was XFS, and 2 days of it last month with
ML 8.2 convinced me to go back to Reiser, lickety split .. Y'allsMMV ;)
FWIW, I'm usin Mandrake 8.2 (expect it to go final in a week or so) on
max overclocked hardware with zip problems for several months ......
Well, there are some, but they usually most always boil down to the
interface between my keyboard, mouse, and chair ;)
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