down for the count

[Kerry Hoath]

I had a machine like this the other day, crashed solid.
Tried to boot it up failed fsck. Messages on the screen said
"CRC error" or "Invalid compressed format" and similar nonsense, the system
board had just died. It appears that once these 586 style systems get to
a certain age or the boards at anyrate they can go flakey or fail for no reason.

I have lost 4 ot 5 systems this way, I have a pile of chips and no boards to
run t hem on all the boards died. Ram out of the machines is still fine.

I would assume that Chuck's machine has just died of old age.
time to get a shiny new celeron if you are on a budget or a Pentium III if
not or an Athlon if you want real power.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:33:27AM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> 	Personally, I'd go for a new system, and a linux upgrade to
> match. Libc5 is becoming outdated fast, and some programs won't even
> compile on it.
> 	You can go for the new dell systems with linux preinstalled, don't
> know what distro they use or how it's configured, though. I bet they
> configure it to come up in X windows, and that won't work for you. They
> probably won't use slackware, so if you want to stick with that distro,
> just get a new system with windlows preloaded, partition the disk, and put
> slakware back on. That would probably be easier than messing around with
> some vendor's configurations anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I will keep an eye (ear?) on list mail but will not otherwise be very active
> > until I get the hardware people to look at this thing and decide whether to
> > bandaid it or plunk down for a shiny new system. I am inclined 5toward the
> > latter, and in fact am seriously thinking about one of those Dell jobs with
> > Linux pre-installed. Any reactions pro or con would be not only appreciated
> > but quite timely right now.
> 
> 
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