Re: troubleshooting my hardware
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 12:25, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> A while ago I was having trouble installing linux on a certain machine. I
> tried windows to see if it might also have problems - it did, crashing
> frequently. An attempt last night to re-install linux failed - I got quite
> far, selected which packages to install, and machine just hung during
> installing the packages (it hung on a message about "uncompressing
> ncurses-term").
> Can anyone suggest good ways to test my hardware for defects? I know about
> memtest86 - I'll be running those tests - but are there any other good testing
> suites out there? Preferably linux based and bootable from a floppy...
How about reducing the machine to the bare minimum, including disabling
non-critical functions in the BIOS, and re-installing.
That will eliminate dodgy hardware, unless the DIMM you use is the
problem. If it still pukes, yank that DIMM and put in a new one.
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