my play box has turned into a paper weight

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Mon Nov 10 17:21:30 EST 2003


I just thought of something. It may be your power supply. when those 
are  dying they can cause all kinds of weird errors.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 
at 04:46:47PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> out of scrapped machines. no one seems to want them anymore so I take 
> them. hell I may not even use them but they're good to have anyways.
> You also could check pricewatch or I think I saw some on 
> www.datamem.com a few months ago.
> On 
> Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:35:11PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote:
> > Interesting.  I've been unable to find FPM and EDO SIMs in the north east,
> > with any reliability.  Where are you getting them?
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
> > 
> > > It's hard to tell what's wrong...usually when I get a problem like
> > > this I just start swapping the parts with known working ones till I
> > > find what's wrong. If it's the ram then that's really easy: It most
> > > likely takes 72-pin simms which are really easy to get. I think 128mb
> > > of them costs like $10. I have about 32 mb worth sitting on my desk
> > > here and about another 48 or maybe even 64 in my cabinate.
> > > On Sun, Nov
> > > 09, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > > Hi all.
> > > >
> > > > Well, the subject says it all. When running applications on my play
> > > > box, they all end up getting segmentation faults. If they don't get
> > > > segmentation faults, they apparently aren't executing, since the
> > > > system sits there forever, and ever. Sometimes, I can do a ctrl+c or a
> > > > ctrl+z, but other times I can't. The same thing happens when I try to
> > > > halt the box. It says broadcasting message from root ... and the
> > > > system is going down for system halt now ..., but that's it, the box
> > > > just sits there with no activity. Sometimes when I hit ctrl+c, I get
> > > > shutdown canceled, other times I don't get anything.
> > > >
> > > > I've also noticed that if I am logged in via ssh, and try to login via
> > > > ssh again to have 2 logins going, the client connects, I get the
> > > > welcome message,I'm told when my last login was, and that I have no
> > > > mail, and then the second connection is just dropped.
> > > >
> > > > Obviously, I've got a hardware problem. However, is it the ram, or is
> > > > it the cpu? I am leaning towards saying that it's the cpu at this
> > > > point, but am open to other educated opinions.
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Greg
> > > >
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