System testing

[William Park]

How many harddisk do you have?  I had a Gigabyte board.  It was okay
with 6 or less harddisks, but it hangs with more than 6 disks.

As others have said, check power supply.
-- 
William

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:18:52PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> I have an older system - Gigabyte motherboard, Core 2 quad processor.  It
> was my desktop up until a couple months ago - but it had become
> progressively more unstable and daily crashes were the norm.  Now I have a
> new desktop and I'm willing to subject the old system to any and all tests
> to determine what's wrong - I'd like to continue to use it.
> 
> About the only thing I _have_ tested is memory with memtest86+, and this
> doesn't appear to be the problem (although I'm impatient and should
> probably run it longer than an hour).  I've downloaded UBCD, StressLinux,
> and some others - but don't entirely know what to do with them.
> 
> So I'm hoping the list can tell me what tests to run and in what order,
> what to look for, and how to interpret results.  Most of my experience has
> been with fairly obvious problems - ie. this is a network card problem,
> this is a bad stick of RAM - and I really couldn't see a pattern or
> probable cause to the random crashes.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

-- 
William
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