Linux friendly hardware guy?

[Joseph Kubik]

There is a program called memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com
I recomend running it and see what happens. If you have a single cpu
machine and it runs clean, your "run time" hardware components are
probably OK. If it fails, well, good luck.
-Joseph-

On 7/31/05, John Myshrall <jmyshrall-6duGhz7i8susTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Rob Sutherland wrote:
> 
> > ted leslie wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> you might also want to see if your bios was effected, and if you had
> >> special
> >> bios setting for your OS, i.e. plug-and-pray, or LBA (for disk), etc,
> >> etc.
> >> But i sonund to me like "initializing hardware" (when i google)
> >> it is usually accompanied by something like fb0: initializing hardware ,
> >> or something more specific to a particular device?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > Well, I've made some progress and it looks like things aren't as dire
> > as I thought. I have CentOS, PC-BSD and
> > Win98 installed. and I'm using Grub. I've succeeded in booting Win98,
> > which is what I'm using now (it's like one of those terrible nightmares
> > where you only have one desktop and the shell sucks :-) ) but CentOS
> > and PC-BSD both die during boot - they don't die at at the same
> > place everytime however and I'm not seeing any device specific errors.
> > I can also boot tomsrtbt, a nice little floppy linux distro and
> > verify that my hard drives are ok, I can mount them and access data.
> > So that's good. Another interesting fact is that the Win98 install
> > I'm running is from a previous machine - an old piece of junk. When it
> > died, I ripped out the drive and had a guy stick it in a new machine
> > with all kinds of new stuff. I've never used it until now or updated
> > it with new drivers to handle things like USB and a DVD drive so I'm
> > starting to
> > think that the problem relates to something in that area. The fact
> > that tomsrtbt works would also seem to point in that direction. So,
> > I'll keep trying
> > to narrow it down.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> I had a similar experience recently. The bios for some reason lost it
> hard drive settings. It would not detect the master dive. I set all the
> HD settings to auto in the bios and the box came back to life.
> 
> HTH
> 
> John
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