On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 27 Aug, Ken Foskey wrote:
> >  You might try a memory test.  memtest86 and include it on your boot 
> >  menu.   Netscape is hungry and therefore would show up a hardware 
> >  failure like this more quickly than other applications. 
> 
> I did do that.  Rather than reporting any errors when I left it running
> overnight, the machine was locked up when I checked it in the morning.
> >From my observation of the speed of the tests, and the percentage
> complete, I'd guess that it ran for 4 - 6 hours.  I believe memtest86
> reports memory errors rather than crashes the machine when it sees one!

If you machine locked up with memtest then you have a hardware failure. 
Start unplugging things and see if you can remove the error. Hardware
errors are ugly when they are intermittent so good luck.

KenF

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