On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:44:13PM -0400, Jay Zach wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm board, 256 megs ram. > >
correction its an xp1700... i wish it was a 2800 :) > > it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothing. must reboot. so okay, > > lmsensors reports the voltage are out of whack, so since its an older > > machine, 5 years or so, I put in a new power supply. no good as sensors > > reports the same voltages as before, probably not a properly > > configured sensor config. bios reports all voltages spot on. (should > > have checked that first, oh well) > > > > next on my checklist os memtest. I've tried to boot into memtest from > > both the harddrive and the floppy that can be created with the > > memtest+ package. upon booting it says memtest is too big to fit in > > memory. wah? > > > > the memtest+.bin image is only 93K. > > > > any insight? > > > > thanks > > > > A > > Download and Burn the ultimate boot cd: > http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/download.html > > Run the memory tests (and other hardware) tests from it. good idea. thanks. I'll do that as my now working memtest looks pretty clean, unless I select the "e820-All" method of determining the amount of memory. Then it bombs like crazy because it doesn't detect the right amount of memory (show 4078 megs instead of 256, hmmm). Anyway the fix for memtest+ is to not bother with grub or lilo, but instead locate the memtest+.bin file (usually in /boot) and dd if=memtest+.bin of=/dev/fd0 and boot it directly. works great. now on to finding the source of my hard locks. ugh./ A
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