Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB I got it in 2006.
<snip> It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same vintage at home.)
Ouch. $200+ before installation, and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't like.
Expensive board. Is this at home? I got a Gigabyte board and Core I-3 combo at MicroCenter for under $200, I think. "Installation"? Hey, we're sysadmins, we build our own systems! <g>
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Keep an eagle eye on dmesg and the logs. If you can, bringmachine down and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to
I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk. My computer's memory got a clean bill of health.
I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to catch the error. And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight. The memory is the newest part of the computer. After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour. After that, I went back to F14.
<snip> If the memory looks good, and the disk looks good, the only two things left are either the CPU or the m/b. I don't remember from earlier in the thread - do you have a video card, or onboard video? If the former, that's the third second thing.... If that's not a hot card, you might consider replacing that first.
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