Hardware Error Solution

[Deepak Shrestha]

On 3/6/07, Adam Hough <adam at gradientzero.com> wrote:
> My guess would be that your motherboard has some bugs in its bios. This
> is assuming that your cpu is fine and nothing is over heating.
>
> I have a machine that worked fine for a few months then became so flakey
> it would not stay up for more then a few minutes.  I think it is because
> as the kernel progressed they added and fixed stuff that cause the bug
> in my bios to appear more frequently.  A friend / co waeork had the same
> thing happen to him when he did a kernel bump running gentoo. Lucky for
> him ibm had finally released a bios update that seems to have fixed the
> machines problem.

 I guess you are right. I was suspecting that too. Tried to update the
bios too but the support from the manufacturere for that board was
abandoned long time ago. The latest bios I found was laste releaded on
2000 I guess. Guess still leads to hardware change option again. :-(