well, so far my athlon has been fine. I have been running a kernel compile
in a while true loop for over 2 days straight now.
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>
> As for how to troubleshoot... if you have access to an additional
> Super Socket 7 Machine, I would first swap the memory between the
> two machines. Test that for a few days, then swap the CPUs. You
> should slowly be able to isolate which part is the problem by doing that.
Unfortuanately I don't. I'm going to talk to the place i bought the
components from later today.
I have tried running it with one memory chip at a time. With the first
chip it lasted about 11 hours, then barely an hour the second run. I'm
tryin gthe second dimm now. If this one behaves the same way, I don't
think it's the ram. based on what you are saying, the MB would be the next
most likely suspect.
> There are also some old DOS utilities (and a few that run under Win95
> et al) that can do integrity testing of memory, and can SOMETIMES
> do testing of the CPU. Try checking some of the download sites
> like Download.com, etc.
yup, looked at a couple already that work off a boot floppy. not impressed
by any yet. If you can recommend any I'd appreciaste it.
> You may need to install DOS or Doze on the
> system to run them, though, but if you're having this much problem,
> you're going to rebuild the system image when you are done, anyway.
certainly willing to do this. One reason would be to allow the place I
bought the parts from muck with it.
One more question. I have a cyrix 200 pc that I used to run NT on. It
worked reasonably well, with the occasional bsod. I made no hardware
changes, and installed win98 on it. It reboots itslef randomly every
couple of hours, even when not in use. I ran a memory test on it a while
back and it seemed to check out fine. Anything sound familiar with this
one? :)
>
> Bill Ward
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