[PLUG] Failing Hardware

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Fri Sep 8 17:06:45 UTC 2006


Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> 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.

I tried booting an old knoppix cd yesterday. It got as far as a female 
voice saying something (I think it was just telling me that sound was 
working). The screen was blank with a very dark blue (purple?) 
background. At that point I had to leave. It was still in that condition 
when I returned 7 hours later.

I rebooted, made a memtest86 floppy and ran that. I checked it a couple 
of times throughout the evening. Each time there was a column of what I 
think were hex numbers, one per line, and repeating (sort of)5 at a time 
  for the 25 lines on the screen. I let it run overnight. Below is my 
hand typed copy of what was on the screen (and still is) when I looked 
at it this morning.

I've left it so that if there is anything else useful to do with that 
screen it's still there. I welcome any and all help in interpreting 
these results.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens

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       Memtest-86 v3.1		(White letters on red background)

(10 lines of blue background with no text followed by 13 lines of white 
on blue, except the last line which is blue on white)

Unexpected Interrupt - Halting
				  Stack:
  Type:   Inv_Op	eax: 00000000	  00012d80 00011d88  00012db0 00011d88
    PC: 00007b99	ebx: 00011d88	  00012d84 00000000  00012db4 00005cad
    CS: 00000010	ecx: 0000a53a	  00012d88 00000006  00012db8 00011d88
Eflag: 00010046	edx: 00001000	  00012d8c 00000000  00012dbc 00011d88
  Code: 00000000	edi: 0000a53a	  00012d90 00007b99  00012dc0 000139e0
		esi: 000139e0	  00012d94 00000010  00012dc4 0000a53a
		ebp: 0000a527	  00012d98 00010046  00012dc8 0000a527
		esp: 00012d80	  00012d9c 00007c56  00012dcc 0000509c
		     		  00012da0 00005ecc  00012dd0 00000000
CS:EIP: ffffffffffffff0e 01 07 3f 00012da4 00000000  00012dd4 00000000
				  00012da8 00000000  00012dd8 00000000
				  00012dac 0000a53f  00012ddc 00000000
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