7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
5:36 a.m.
RAM is the most likly cause IMHO, but If the motherboard is oldish (couple
of years or so) then its worth eyeballing the motherboard for bulging
capacitors, I lost my studio PC to this and we lost a load at work.
The tops should be slightly concave and clean, if theres any sign of brown
gunge (technical term) or bulging then the motherboard is a gonner.
There was a bad batch of capacitors for a while from a major manufacturer,
but I suspect all the bad boards have blown allready by now.
- Steve
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:40:29 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
My thanks to all respondents for their suggestions, but sad to say, I
got no joy. At this time the machine is unusable and I'll probably have
to take it in for repair or just buy a new mobo. I now can't get beyond
the boot stage, it usually dies with a kernel panic either right away or
shortly after startup. Big bummer.
I removed all cards, installed a new CPU fan, and tried booting from a
Knoppix disk. The Knoppix live CD also failed with a kernel panic, which
probably means I have a hardware problem either with the RAM or the CPU.
Btw, I've been running RH9 happily on this box for quite a while, it's
hardly a new installation
I have access to an identical box I'll get to try either tomorrow or
the day after, but this one's DOA for this evening. :(
Best,
dp
Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
I've been having some problems with my desktop machine during and
after booting into Planet CCRMA RH9. At first I started getting some
kernel panics booting into the system, then I started having trouble
during operation of the system. X would suddenly freeze shortly after
I started it, usually after the first mouse move.
Okay, so I don't panic because I have another drive in the same box
running FC3, so I figure I'll just boot into that system instead and
transfer files before everything heads south. At first everything
seemed fine on that drive, but soon after I started using it FC3
started showing the same symptoms with sudden reboots and total
freezes of the machine.
I've been able to transfer a lot of stuff to my laptop via the local
network, but mounting the RH9 drive is very dangerous, things can
freeze at any moment. Alas, there's still stuff on that drive that I'd
like to retrieve.
So there's something wrong with the box. Can anyone point me in the
right direction to begin troubleshooting this machine ? Could it be
RAM ? The graphics card ? Or what ?? And how can I test things on the
hardware side, i.e., what utilities are indicated ?
Any and all suggestions vastly appreciated.
Best,
dp