On Friday 27 May 2005 09:22 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Mikkel > > > > Thanks Mikkel, I downloaded the image, both drives pass with flying > > colors, running memtest about 30% through I got a reboot, I don't know if > > that signifies a bad ram stick or not. I'll try rerunning it tomorrow > > when I have more time. From the error above I thought maybe the kernel > > had gotten corrupted somehow so I ran upgrade from CD1 which reinstalled > > the kernel. I'll see what happens during the night and into tomorrow. > > > > Thanks for the tip on the cd. > > > > Chris > > Hi Chris, > I am glad I could help. The thing about installing from RPMs is that > the installer does a check before trying to install. So a bad download > or CD image normaly results in refusing to install the package. But if > it installs, then the problem is in ether an error during install, or > during the loading. > > In this case, I suspect hardware problems. The fact that the memory > test rebooted itself tends to confirm this. I have run the memory test > for 48 hours on machines in the past with no reboots. Unfortunitly, the > fact that the system reboots more of an indication of other problems, > rather then a memory problem. The test is good about reporting errors, > so it probably is something other then bad memory that caused this. (But > try to get the memory test to complete at least one pass to make sure.) > It could be something like a bad power supply, or heat buildup because > of a bad fan. This kind of problem is always fun to find! > > Mikkel
System is running under pretty much of a load now, I'm doing my nightly "NANAS" reporting and have about 240 processes running. CPU is running right at 111F. I'd almost think one of my 128mb modules is bad, but I'll see what happens sometime tomorrow. I'll give memtest another try tomorrow when we go out for our Saturday shopping trip. Tasks: 208 total, 1 running, 207 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 53.0% us, 23.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 22.7% id, 0.3% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.7% si Mem: 516044k total, 499340k used, 16704k free, 40136k buffers Swap: 626492k total, 0k used, 626492k free, 186884k cached I'll let you know what happens. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:31:17 up 1:00, 3 users, load average: 0.69, 1.00, 0.93 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If Microsoft built cars, the Linux car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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