what brand/model of mainboard? what speed of ram? after having a bout with bad ram twice last week i would lean towards the ram. if its PC133 ram look at the speed it should say 6ns, i got 7ns which is 125Mhz but they sold it as 133, and of course it crashed like mad. once i put the ram at 100mhz(in the bios) it was ok. (ive taken the system back so the fuckers can fix it tho)
nate Vincent Perdrix wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I just managed to get "Potato" but it seems that I have a > problem with my RAM. > > I currently have 192M installed in my AMD/Athlon 700 Box. > Of course I added the correct line, ie: append="mem=192M" > in lilo.conf and ran /sbin/lilo. > > Linux swap partition: >600 MB > > Everything was fine, for 2-3 minutes after the command > prompt appeared. cat /proc/meminfo would show me that > indeed 192MB were recognized. X starts just fine, but for > no reason, the system crashes. I then have to violently > reboot my box (I choosed Debian to precisely avoid that!), > and it won't reboot correctly: the disks partitions are > definitely corrupted ie: Repartitioning of the Hard Drive + > re-installation (I know it's not the best way to solve > that). > > The strangest thing is that the systems worked just fine > with 192MB installed but without the correct "append" line > in lilo.conf. > > Removing 64MB of SDRAM and adding append="mem=128M" in > lilo.conf lead to the same results: system crash. > > -Just to be sure, I tried to install a RedHat 6.2 and got > the same problems- > > Shall I accuse my SDRAM, or my Mainboard, shall I accuse > Murphy or did I miss something important? > > Thanks for your help. > ______________________________________________________ > Boîte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
