Hardware Issues?

[Marcus Brubaker]

Adam Raymond wrote:

>On 7/6/05, Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
>>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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>Ill try the memtest86. However I don't know if the CPU is overheating.
>I have both of the sides off. However I did hear that taking/leaving
>the sides off disrupts air flow, so indeed the cpu might still be
>overheating. Is this true?
>  
>

I've heard that as well, not sure how true it is.  My experience has 
generally been to the contrary but that is limited to older machines 
where cooling was not such an issue.  What kinds of error messages do 
you get when you try to install Ubuntu and Mandrake?  Are there any odd 
messages in /var/log/*?

Regards,
Marcus
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