[CentOS] died again

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:57:26AM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 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

or the power supply...

> 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

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