crashing after install

[jim ruxton]

Memtest froze the machine twice. I booted up a third time and this time
it passed the memory test. This is really frustrating. It seems to be
hardware related but isn't repeatable. I'm thinking I should take it
back to the shop.
Jim
> Thanks Rick,
> The machine keeps freezing when I run memtest. First time it got to Pass
> 4%, second time Pass 6% . I noticed when it was booting up the 12 volt
> supply is at 11.52 volts, not sure if this is too low. Do you think this
> is a sure fire hardware problem
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > jim ruxton wrote:
> > > I just got a new machine and installed FC3 on it. I left it running
> > > overnight and it crashed. There was noise on the monitor when I woke up.
> > > I tried pinging it but it was dead. I reset it and looked
> > > in /var/log/messages but couldn't find anything except a gap between the
> > > last cron event and when I rebooted. After booting up I was mousing
> > > around and the machine froze, this time the last image stayed on the
> > > screen ie. no noise. Again I rebooted but couldn't find anything in the
> > > log files. Should I bring this back to the store? I'm worried the store
> > > will blame the crash on Linux. Any thoughts?
> > 
> > The first thing is to send us a full list of what the machine is.
> > Make and model (if a packaged system), motherboard make and model (if
> > you built it yourself), memory configuration, disk drive configs
> > (interface types such as IDE, EIDE, SATA, SCSI, etc. along with the
> > models if known), video card make and model, keyboard/mouse (USB or
> > PS/2), network cards and any additional stuff you have on it (firewire
> > drives, USB drives, etc.).
> > 
> > If you can, also include the output of the "lspci -v" command.
> > 
> > Second, boot of the first FC disk and run "memtest" at the "boot:"
> > prompt to test your memory.  If the memory is OK, then we need to
> > look further into it and the data from item 1 above is necessary.
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> > - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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