Hardware Issues?

[Marcus Brubaker]

Adam Raymond wrote:

>Hello all!
>
>I've been running two slackware boxes (headless) to the side of my
>desk. One is a p2 with 333mhz, the other is a p3 with 600 mhz. The
>better box (600mhz) has always given my problems. It shuts down
>randomly. I ave frequent kernel panics. So after school finished, I
>decided to take a good look at the box. One error I noticed was
>something to do with a rambus error. So i took out one stick of ram,
>and tested the other. Vice versa. I found out that the 128 stick was
>the busted one :( (I think). But the box is still active very weird. I
>hates the ubuntu install, and cant even load mandrake. Slackware seems
>to be the only distro it will handle.
>
>Regardless, there is some wonky hardware in it. and I need to find out
>what the problem is.
>
>And suggestions?
>
>Thanks!
>  
>

Well, you can try to rule out the memory by running memtest86.  I once 
had chronic kernel panics which I traced down to the CPU overheating so 
checking the fans and ventilation might be something to try.

Good luck.

Regards,
Marcus

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