[CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

[John R Pierce]

John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:39:41PM -0700, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>   
>> I just had a thought: this *is* Unix. Plug in a VT100 via serial cable.
>>     
>
> 	That's not going to work as the server will not boot with bad
> 	video memory in it; bad memory is a catastrophic error as far
> 	as the BIOS is concerned.
>   


how do you know this is the problem, and the motherboard hasn't croaked 
in some OTHER 10+ year old crusty mobo fashion ?