[PLUG] memtest86 interpretation
AthlonRob
AthlonRob at axpr.net
Mon Jan 17 17:48:31 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 23:36 -0800, Galen Seitz wrote:
> If the problem follows the CPU, then it pretty much has to be the CPU.
> It's a bit odd that you are able to run any code at all.
It *is* odd, isn't it?
I had a similar thing happen to me some time back. I had artifacts
appearing when I watched DVDs or AVIs on my old Duron 650. They would
get pretty bad, but then drop off to nothing. If I used VLC on the box,
they were there. If I used VLS on it, then VLC on a different box, they
weren't there.
Sometimes (not always) mencoder-created files would have these
artifacts. Sometimes they were clean. Sometimes mencoder would seg
fault instead of encoding.
I figured it was the video chip on my motherboard, so I swapped
motherboards. I was wrong. Eventually I finally replaced the CPU...
and the problem magically disappeared. I'd never heard of CPUs halfway
going out like that... it was an educational experience. :-)
I loved that old Duron, though.. it was a good chip.
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