Kevin Brosius on Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:40:15 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] odd behaviour on my workstation


pinkee@cavegirl.org wrote:
> 
> I am running 2.2.19 woody on a p133 workstation. It has gone from 48
> megs of ram to 61 recently due to me being in the right place at the
> right time. (odd I know) :) Everything was fine, until Darxus managed to
> crash it. :) It has begun kernal panicking frequenly, and it is getting
> annoying. I ran memtest v. 2.93.1 which it passed once but panicked on
> the second round. Could this be the odd amount of ram or just likely bad
> ram? Or is it all darxus' fault? :) The data in memtest.log shows the
> kernal panicked at step 14 of 16 but all others were good. Is there a
> better tool. These are 72 pin simms. Also am I barking up the wrong
> tree? I have also begun getting goofy characters or space where there
> should be letters. Itr doesn't *appear* to be affecting anything, but a
> silly smiley face thingy where an ascii character is supposed to be gives
> me that chucky feeling. :) Randomly on a b&w interface a character will
> pop up in color. Any suggestions would be appreciated :)

Could be the ram, pull out the new stick and see if anything changes? 
Another thought, could just be a bad connection.  Is it an older PC with
dust floating around in the case?  Make sure all the PCI/ISA cards are
well seated and/or reseat them.  Also check that the memory is well
seated in the SIM sockets.  (Do you know how to ground yourself before
removing cards/SIMs?  Wear a ground strap attached to the PC case or
discharge yourself against the case or power supply shell.  Leave the
power supply plugged into a 3 prong outlet but turned off while working
in the PC.  It being winter here, static damage is much more likely
unless care is taken.)

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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