[ale] Hardware probs(was Need Help w/Debian Sarge...)

[James P. Kinney III]

There's a boot floppy version of memtest. That needs to be used to
verify is the RAM is really flaking out. If the mobo used shared ram
with the video chip and the system ram is crap, that would explain the
video problems.

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:36, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Okay now problems seem to range far greater than video resolution, etc. 
> I has been getting kernel panics since putting together this new system.
> 
> Asus A7N8X-X (bios is most recent)
> Retail boxed Athalon 2600XP (BIOS says it's a 2300)
> 2 sticks Kingston DDR3200 512m Valueram
> Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI
> 420 watt Enlight power supply
> Sapphire ATI Radeon 9200 256m AGP 8X
> 
> This is a Debian Sarge system with all updates running kernel 2.4.24. I 
> have installed memtest86+ and have not been able to complete a round of 
> tests yet without one or more tests failing and ending in a kernel 
> panic. I have tried bios settings of both "Resources Controlled By 
> [ESCD/Manual]"  under PnP/PCI Configurations. Also have tried disabling 
> APIC mode. Nothing seems to have changed behavior much. How sure can I 
> be I have a memory problem at this point? Motherboard? Video card?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Seymour
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