Re: My System Freezes

[Chuk Goodin <chukgoodin@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:25:57 -0700, Hodgins Family
<ehodgins@telusplanet.net> wrote:

> An embarrassing anecdote to share. My 600 MHz screamer started to freeze
> up around Christmas time. No idea what caused it. Did it under Win98,
> Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu. So, not software...then RAM started to complain.
> None of the chips passed the memtest86 test....The box only stayed "up"
> for a few hours...
> 
> Answer: can you say NEW CPU FAN?

Same thing happened to me in about September. After all the time I
spent telling my wife that we needed new RAM, it was pretty
embarrassing to fix the problem with a $10 fan. (But at least it was
cheap.)


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chuk