[OT]Dumb hardware question

[Jerry Feldman]

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>
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