Re: install errors

["Shawn Huston" <shuston@ohiohills.com>]

It was giving me file copy errors on different files.  Basically it said 
that file was not copied correctly.

Downloaded memtest and burnt it to a cd.  It says I have 7000 errors at the 
moment, and it is still going.  It is only on test #4.  Hopefully this is 
the problem.  I am going to test it against my P4 machine and see.

System specs:

Dual Pentium 3 Tualatin processors at 1.26
Gigabyte GA-6VTXD motherboard with Via chipset.
512 mb ram
1 Western Digital Caviar 40 GB HD
1 Western Digital Caviar 20 GB HD

Thanks

Shawn Huston



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Ballard" <nospam_40811@alltel.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: install errors


> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:59:10PM -0500, Shawn Huston wrote:
> > I realize this isn't quite on topic.  I am having hardware problems.
> > Everytime I try to install an OS.. I get file copy errors, and it
> > eventually won't install.  I have changed hard drives, ide cables, 
> > cdroms,
> > and burnt new copies of the disc with the OS.  Does anyone have any
> > suggestions that could help?  I am really getting frustrated with this.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> You probably have bad memory.  Try a program called "memtest" on a boot
> floppy.
>
> On my machine I had to disable the onboard SATA or I'd get memtest
> errors under stress.  Crapy bios.  (Asus P4C800-E mobo)
>
>
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