Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now on to finding the source of my hard locks. ugh./ Be sure to check the temperature of your CPU. (been there) In my case, I had to vacuum the fan and re-mount properly (with enough grease) the fan mount. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Deliveri

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > 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

Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
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

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > 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. >

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Zach
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. > > it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothin