Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.roth at 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 at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: >>>>> Keep an eagle eye on dmesg and the logs. If you can, bring >>>> machine 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. mark