my play box has turned into a paper weight

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Interesting.  I've been unable to find FPM and EDO SIMs in the north east,
with any reliability.  Where are you getting them?


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Alex Snow wrote:

> It's hard to tell what's wrong...usually when I get a problem like
> this I just start swapping the parts with known working ones till I
> find what's wrong. If it's the ram then that's really easy: It most
> likely takes 72-pin simms which are really easy to get. I think 128mb
> of them costs like $10. I have about 32 mb worth sitting on my desk
> here and about another 48 or maybe even 64 in my cabinate.
> On Sun, Nov
> 09, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Well, the subject says it all. When running applications on my play
> > box, they all end up getting segmentation faults. If they don't get
> > segmentation faults, they apparently aren't executing, since the
> > system sits there forever, and ever. Sometimes, I can do a ctrl+c or a
> > ctrl+z, but other times I can't. The same thing happens when I try to
> > halt the box. It says broadcasting message from root ... and the
> > system is going down for system halt now ..., but that's it, the box
> > just sits there with no activity. Sometimes when I hit ctrl+c, I get
> > shutdown canceled, other times I don't get anything.
> >
> > I've also noticed that if I am logged in via ssh, and try to login via
> > ssh again to have 2 logins going, the client connects, I get the
> > welcome message,I'm told when my last login was, and that I have no
> > mail, and then the second connection is just dropped.
> >
> > Obviously, I've got a hardware problem. However, is it the ram, or is
> > it the cpu? I am leaning towards saying that it's the cpu at this
> > point, but am open to other educated opinions.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Greg
> >
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