[ale] final plea for help (more kernel panic info)

[James P. Kinney III]

Ignore my earlier post as I just saw this one. It looks like the either
the motherboard is dying, or the cpu is burned or the ram is bad. Pull
the ram and test in another box with memtest. Test the original box box
with known good ram and run a small compile. Final test, get a hair
dryer and a can of compressed air. with the box running , warm the board
from the back until it dies, reboot, use the air cans to cool the
chipset and test again. If cooling the chipset with a warm board
otherwise runs well, the chipset is bad.

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 03:59, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> It's not just fsck, it's pretty much anything I try to do. I can run at
> the console for awhile (10 - 30 minutes) but if I try to do much of
> anything, it gives me a cannot handle null pointer, a kernel oops, and a
> long list of things that don't make much sense to me.
> 
> I don't think it's a hard drive or IDE controller thing, my gut feeling is
> that it's memory or CPU.  I say this b/c I can do normal disk IO and
> everything is OK (and fsck, when I can get it to run, says my hdds are
> fine. they've been fine for two years, i would be very startled if they
> both suddenly went bad). But if I try to do anything that utilises system
> resources: cp -r, mv, untar a large archive, I get kernel panics. The "EIP
> is at so-and-so" messages have varied widely throughout the night, I would
> think if it was an IDE controller it would complain about that every
> single time.
> 
> I'm trying to update my kernel, but I can't build a new one (can't untar
> the archive, or copy an untarr'd archive from much of anywhere) and I
> can't even update with an RPM (kernel panic).
> 
> How, at this point, can I diagnose whether it's hardware or software? Any
> help, feedback, or assistance in understanding what I'm looking at when
> the kernel panics and spits out two screens of long numbers will be
> welcomed gratefully.
> 
> thanks
> jenn,
> tired and dejected
> 
> 
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