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On Sat, 10 May 2003 14:53:14 -0400 "Brian J. Conway" <bconway at alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > My experience with Memtest86 has been exactly the opposite. If I > don't get errors from a system in the first minute or two (which > usually end up spewing lines up the screen faster than I can read), I > don't get any, even if I leave it sitting for a day or more. Booting > a Linux CD-based distro, as was mentioned earlier, sounds like a good > idea. If it crashes there will be a lot more useful information to > sift through to find what is actually the problem. I've got a couple of problems with that. For some reason my SuSE distros don't recognize USB keyboards at one point, but I can easily switch to the standard PS/2 plugs. I also only have CD-R media and the Knoppix distro I downloaded wants a CD-RW for extra capacity. Again, a simple solution, just buy some CD-RW media. (I can't keep my wife away from her computer for 24 hours). But, she will be out of town to paint a mural next month so I'll be able to run a long diag at that time. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20030510/c6049247/attachment.sig>
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