[PLUG] Failing Hardware

[Carlos Konstanski]

You might want to run memtest86, just to rule out bad memory.  One place
you can get memtest86 is on a gentoo livecd.

Maybe try to leave your machine booted up under knoppix or some other cd
distro, and see if the problem still occurs.  This would eliminate your
suse load and the hard drive from the equation.

Carlos Konstanski

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:15:43 -0700
> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: PLUG List <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] Failing Hardware
> 
> My current machine has re-booted itself twice in the last 24-48 hours. I was 
> sitting at my desk the first time it happened, and watched it respond the way 
> it would if I had hit the hardware reset button on the front of the box. The 
> second time was overnight last night.
>
> Any recommendations on what to test to see if this is a relatively simple 
> fix?
>
> The machine is an older Micron: Pentium II, 192MB RAM.
>
> After the first time, SuSE 9.1 booted correctly and all programs that I 
> normally use started correctly. After the second time, my network card 
> configuration was hosed (this has happened before), and when I started 
> Thunderbird and Firefox, neither opened with my usual profile, but instead 
> wanted me to select one. Realizing that there was a network issue, I started 
> YaST, made it look like I had edited the Ethernet card configuration, and 
> clicked on "finish". In the past, that's all I needed to do, but this time 
> that wasn't enough -- I still could not see outside this machine. However, a 
> re-boot cleared whatever was confused, and I'm back to normal, as far as I 
> can tell. At least Thunderbird and Firefox started with my profile.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
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