On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case > > fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been > > solid. > > > > Thanks for your reply (and thanks to Richard, as well). > > At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but since I'm > runningthis motherboard (Soyo Apollo etc etc) and P3/500 for > over two years and had no problems of any kind, I though RAM > could be defective, but memtests reported no errors. > > As far as I can see, CPU and fan are working fine. > > Is there any hardware stress/testing tool available for Linux > (or even for Windows)?
Search for a utility called cpuburn. There's also a memchecking utility on the Mandrake install disk under /images called mem-test.bin. dd this image to a floppy and boot with it to check your memory. >
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