[Nelug] Red Hat Help Required

Paul Hutchinson paulhutchinson at warpmail.net
Sat Feb 21 13:09:16 UTC 2004


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:14:57 +0000
Ian McKeag <ian at pulsar.uklinux.net> wrote:

<snip>

> I have seen this on only two occasions and both were found to be
> harware faults.  One was a motheboard memory management problem and
> was fixed by replacing the board and the second was caused by faulty
> memory and cured by, yes, replacing the ram.  In both cases the system
> would "correctly" install
> and boot Windows XP and both systems passed the PCcheck memory test.
> 
> I'm sure this is not what you want to hear.
> 
> Regards.
> Ian.

Memtest86 [www.memtest86.com/] will do a good job of finding out if you
have any faulty ram or not. Boot of the floppy and let it run through
for a couple of hours. Very good program and will let you know either
way.

Paul





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