Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?
On Monday 25 June 2007 05:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +0000, Prismatic Plasma wrote:
> > I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even
> > fully diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are:
> > 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and
> > annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message
> > instead, complaining about unknown variables or junk at end of line. In
> > the error message it's often apparent that something got corrupted by one
> > character. The file is usually a header and it isn't corrupted on disk.
>
> memory.
>
> > 2) occasionally the system goes wild and thrashing, sucking up nearly all
> > cpu. Sometimes it causes the machine to lock up, but usually I can kill
> > the process that triggered the problem and everything settles down after
> > 10 seconds or so. If I restart the process, sometimes everything's okay,
> > sometimes it goes wild again.
>
> maybe memory.
>
> > Is this a familiar problem? Is it the mobo or ram? Or is it a software
> > issue messing up virtual memory? My bios is updated, and I've tried
> > several kernels in the 2.6 line, including a couple of custom compiles.
> > The problem exists even in single-user mode, so it doesn't have anything
> > to do with the windowing system. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.21, etch
> > amd-64, ext3 fs, and sata disk (WD Cavalier, I think).
>
> definitely memory.
>
> A
Do you mean bad ram? Or is it a timing issue from bios that need twiddling?
The machine's been flakey like this since I got it.
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