FC6 freezing

jim ruxton cinetron at passport.ca
Thu Apr 12 17:11:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:53 -0700, Bob Kinney wrote:
> If you haven't already, run memtest86 from the FC boot CD, and let it
> go overnight, or longer.  Sometimes electronic problems are intermittent.
> Memtest is THE tool to use, and often picks up on errors other memory
> testers miss. 
Thanks I used memtest86  but not overnight. I can try this. In case it
matters this is a laptop.
>  
> An excellent free tool for this is called Drive Fitness Test (DFT) from
> IBM and Hitachi.  I haven't seen a drive it wouldn't test, and works on
> PATA, SATA, and SCSI.  The test is data-safe.  You can get it here:
> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Thanks I will download it.
Jim




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