Software issue or (uggh) hardware?

[Bob Raymond]

Net Llama! wrote:
> This is definitely a hardware issue, seeing as how its reproducable across
> different OS's.  I suspect the power outage fried something, the question
> now is what.  I'd suggest running memtest86 for at least 24 hours.  This
> might help pin down the source of the problem.  Alternatively, if you have
> spare memory, try swapping known good memory into the system, and see if
> the instability persists.  Right now, i'm leaning towards either the
> memory or CPU as the culprits.

Actually, not sure right now whether I have any problem.  I got one of 
my Gentoo rescue CD's to boot, found out that wvdial did work, got the 
latest XFS patchset, and voila, I have a working 2.4.19 system with my ' 
and " keys.

Still have the floppy controller to deal with, but I think it doesn't 
like my cable or something- it's just a two floppy controller and I have 
a four connector cable + 9 year old dual drive.

Haven't seen any lockups yet, and I really don't know what happened last 
night with FreeBSD (it happened while I slept).  I ran MemTest for one 
pass (took just over three hours) and got no errors.  KDE got b0rken so 
I'm recompiling that tonight, though.



				Thanks though,

				Bob Raymond