strange hardware problem

Kyril Stoikopoulos systems-qMtYMQfCx00 at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 18 18:06:46 UTC 2006


check the capacitors on the motherboard to see if the tops are popping. Some
of the motherboards made durring the pentium 3 era had bad capacitors and as
they fail your computer starts acting very strangely.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Van Ostrand" <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: strange hardware problem


> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:00 -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> > Yes, this machine has been running the same system for about a month
> > or two. Problems started some time ago and they become more and more
> > serious. Now, today, I see that sometime I can not already reboot it
> > because it gets mad during startup. So it looks rather that something
> > is going to fail totally, quite soon ;)
> Try a memtest. That usually our first course of action regardless of the
> O/S. Your red hat disk install disk has an option for that.
>
> I haven't seen a memory leak cause a reboot, but they do cause hangs.
> Sysrq can help you diagnose this. Grep your kernel docs for sysrq to see
> how to use it.
>
> The keyboard LEDs should  be blinking if the kernel panicked, so it
> doesn't look like a kernel bug.
>
> If you have the means I recommend you replace the hardware. It should be
> as simple as moving the disk to another system and letting kudzu fix the
> drivers. If you want PIII I have a few lying around if you want to drive
> to Waterloo and test it out.
>
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