> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick > O'Callaghan > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Can't boot! > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: > > S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote: > > >> The computer seems to "die" right about when X is about to start. > > > > > > Can you try <ctrl><alt><F1> (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console > > > login is on? > > > > > OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times > I've tried > > to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops > > responding (so <Ctrl><Alt><anything> doesn't work). This thing is > > behaving very inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot > > and I was able to log in. > > I'd say do a thorough memory check. The brief check done by a > BIOS at boot time is not exhaustive enough and sporadic > memory errors can cause all kinds of random woe. I recently > pulled two 1GB sticks from my machine because memtest86+ > found problems (actually I think the problems are with the > motherboard slots rather the chips, but it amounts to the > same thing). The machine lost half its RAM but now it works > flawlessly. > > http://www.memtest.org > > poc Are you by chance using some sort of nForce motherboard and DDR2 RAM? A lot of them simply don't push enough juice to the RAM to support 4 sticks without fiddling with the BIOS settings. Most often, reducing the RAM speed (i.e.: from 1066MHz to 800MHz in my case) and increasing the voltage being sent to the RAM slots does the trick. - Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
