on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:24:56AM -0500, Andy Laurence (andy@themidwestgroup.com) wrote: > I assume, the rescue.bin and root.bin I'm using should be pretty > stable? I keep getting runaway errors with thousands of lines > scrolling up my screen. I expect there's a memory error or someting > on this old machine. Apparently when it ran NT4, it used to > blue-screen a lot. I thought I'd check that it's not me, or possibly > the disks that do sometimes become unstable. It's an AMD chip, and a > VIA chipset if that makes any difference. Try a rescue/diagnosis system. Tom's Root Boot (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and Trinux are both GNU/Linux-on-a-floppy distros that can be used to boot a minimal system andn see what's going on. These should be sufficient to find out what's up with the hardware. For more complete tools, the LinuxCare BBC (bootable business card), or the recently announced LNX-BBC project (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/). There are GNU/Linux and DOS-based memory testers, you're encouraged to use them. Specifics on the errors might also be helpful. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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