Linux friendly hardware guy?

[Jose A. Dias]

Don't forget to check the power supply. Any time Windoze works and a
real OS does not then you have:

1) memory problems
2) power problems
3) bad karma (:-)

If the disk checks out, check the memory first, over a couple of days
and if it complains, then check the power supply, and if that is
correctable, then run the memory again...

The power supply could "take the memory down" (i.e. short parts of it)
but you could be lucky and just have a sub-standard +5V.

Do you use an inline UPS? Any lightning recently?


-- 
Jose Antonio Dias
Jose.Dias-V3Qe//ktpHnR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org
www.diaslan.net


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Joseph
Kubik
Sent: July 31, 2005 11:37 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Linux friendly hardware guy?

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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