Re: sid upgrade today & now nothing works
Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
On 03-05-15 20:02 -0500, Kent West wrote:
You might want to install memtest86 (you can use another machine and
build a bootable memtest86 floppy if need be) and run a few rounds of
tests. If you have lockups/failures during that, you can be pretty
confident you've got a hardware problem.
I'm afraid you may be right. I happened to have a memtest86 3.0 floppy
lying around & it's been churning away for awhile now. Up until now,
it's only purpose has been to reassure me that "no, it's not memory
problems", but this round I got like 150K errors in the first 5
minutes... though it seems to have levelled off since then. I understand
it's best to let it go as long as you can stand it? like 24 hours? will
it make it's conclusions obvious to me when I finally kill it?
If it has already spit out a bunch of errors, you already have a
conclusion. No need to run it any longer.
The only question now is "What's failing in your hardware?".
Are all your fans working? Try opening the case and get a can of cool
air (I forget what they're called) and spray on the CPU while running
memtest86 to see if the errors go away. Perhaps a memory stick needs to
be reseated? Maybe oily dust is shorting something - try blowing out the
case with a can (or compressor) of compressed air. Reseat all your
cards/RAM; push down all your socketed chips; remove any unnecessary
cards and rerun the test, etc.
sorry about the not-so-on-topic question...
FWIW, I'm in NYC & it's definitely not what I would call summer yet, but
I have enabled 2.4.20 kernel ACPI since this time last year and
/proc/sys/thermal or whatever it is exists as a directory but is empty
(and /proc/whatever/fan doesn't exist at all)
sourceforge patches for that stuff were recently discussed on -laptop..
do you think I just need to install those?
(again, it's a sony vaio pcg-fx370k laptop)
Having a real-time temperature monitor is a good thing.
thanks,
Kenneth
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Kent West (westk@acu.edu)
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