LinuxMedia wrote: > Dave, > > Before my suggestion... just a quick note of moral support... Please > don't let it get you down too much. Think about all the may times > there's a (seemingly impossible) problem and how it always works out > in the end. And we all seem to learn so much from these things. > > Ok... So... It's not the mother board... It's not the Power supply. > You're getting there. How about buying new ram, putting the old ram in > static safe packaging. If the problems go away... Then you only paid > for ram. Beats buying a whole system. > > And as people mentioned, not all memtests detect bad ram anyways. So > if problems still occure with new ram, you now have extra ram. I have > tons of "parts" and many times have been able to use some later. If > the (old) ram proves good, maybe you can use it for a machine you're > building for a friend, (or your next machine). Same with Hard > drives... replace... test... and if problems still occure, you now > have extra drives (I'm not helping am I... hehe). You can save tons of > money by building a system from scratch. So extra drives and ram are > good in that way. > > Btw... I see they have "cases" for IDE drives to convert them into usb > drives. Don't know if you have a use for them, but I use them to back > up drives. This is good because they aren't connected to computer (so > electric storm can't fry your back up drive). I have two so that > there's always one that's not hooked up to the computer. Haven't tried > the IDE/USB "cases", so I can't vouch for them. > > It's amazing what could cause a problem. My brother tore my sister's > machine apart and replaced "this" and "that" and after all, it was the > bad sound card that was causing (both) windows (and) linux to crash. > Prior to that, I had no clue a soundcard could cause 2 OS's to crash. > And now (for instance) if I hear a soundcard making weird sounds, I'll > know to watch for weird system behavior. So at least we learn things. > > I've had 2 Maxtor drive fail on me. I will never buy Maxtor drives again. > > Good luck > Rocco > I had similar sounding problems with 3 P4 machines I brought up on Fedora Core 3; they froze up so bad in X, I couldn't get apt to download upgrades successfully. After bringing the machines up in run level 3, doing the apt-get update/upgrade, etc. and loading the FC3 Planet CCRMA kernels, and software the problem went away. In my case I was sure the problem was not hardware, since FC1+Planet CCRMA would still run stabily for days at a time, whereas FC3 straight off the ISO would always freeze up in less than an hour. If your running a 2.6.9 or earlier kernel, I'd try upgrading. -- e. j. branagan the MUSE ? Nashville, TN
