[Gllug] Testing PCI

[Caroline Ford]

Mark Williams wrote:
> I mentioned yesterday that I was going to look at a friends (fairly new) PC.
>
> Interestingly, this will run any flavour of Linux boot disk I tried; but not 
> Win XP install, which reports a PCI.SYS error (BSOD type!)
>
> I checked lspci, and as many hardware listing tools as I could find; but it 
> struck me, I couldn't think of anything that would actually _test_ the PCI 
> bus. Having not found any errors (& it's not software, we blanked the drive & 
> tried XP pro & XP home disks), I'm stuck.
>
> Linux advocacy failed on 'this is what we're used to', BTW, even though the 
> demo of it failing to fall down where M$ did was quite good.
>
> Anyone know how to thoroughly test a Dell PCI bus?
>
> Mark
>
>   
Get the numbers from the bsod and google for them. Standard windows 
troubleshooting :(

Caroline
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