[Gllug] Grrr Computer Upgrading

[Peter Childs]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jon Dye wrote:

> Peter Childs wrote:
> > 	Most people don't upgrade their case. Except me I guess. Anyway I did and now 
> > a few things don't work. Well maybe I should say work relialbly....
> > 
> > 1. The Bios comes up with a strange NMI error. Reading around on the internet 
> > seams to say some sort of memory error. I/O Parity comes into the error 
> > message too. Hit escape though and every thing seams fine until.....
> 
> Try running memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) on you computer to see 
> if you have any memeory problems.  There should be a floppy image on the 
> site which you can just write to a disk and then boot.
> 
> > 2. Grub. Loads fine no menu however so the computer just loads straght into 
> > Linux (no bad thing you might say) but then its just not right. I did manage 
> > to get into my Windows by hmm changing the default in /etc/grub.conf and then 
> > using knoppix to put it back again. But I would much prefer to get the menu 
> > back.
> 
> Not got around to trying grub yet so can't answer this one.

Strage that. Grub has a number of nice features but also more bugs. I 
switched back to Lilo and it works fine again now.

Peter Childs

> 
> > 	If anyone has any ideas please say. 
> > 	I did not do anything to the setup just unplug it and plug it back in in a 
> > nice new case. I'm thinking now maybe I would have been better to get the new 
> > motherboard and processor I was trying to put off for another 6 months....
> 
> Check the memory first!

	I'll try that

> 
> JD
> 
> 
> 

Peter Childs


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