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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
