memtest is reporting errors on tests 5 and 8, which the docs say happen often with AMD XP CPU's and some cheap memory chips. I have a PNY pc133 256MB chip and a Kingston pc133 256MB chip. I would not consider either of these "cheap" memory, and the problem exists with both chips by themselves, as well as together. I suppose I could try to find a different RAM chip, in case they are both bad (which I doubt).
I have several IDE devices, so I tried unplugging all unnecessary devices for getting to memtest, but the problem still existed. I'm building a new system, so I grabbed the power supply out of it (which is bigger), and plugged it up, but that didn't fix the problem either.
I'm going to see if there's a bios upgrade for my motherboard, but after that I don't know what to try. It seems like it's either the CPU or the motherboard ... neither of which I can test individually.
Cory
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:37 -0600, . wrote:Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping back from gui to console after a period of uptime? I have a computer that I run at init level 5 and use as my main home PC. However, I also have it running several things out of cron, and performing server type functions like samba and cups. It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB of RAM, so I don't feel I'm asking too much from the system.
Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will be at a console login prompt. After a series of stopping and starting xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems to get me back to a gui login. Then I can log back in and continue on. The problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I keep loosing my work when this happens.
I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I thought I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this and/or knew what the problem was.
Sounds like a hardware prob to me. Install memtest and reboot to the
memtest boot option and run it over night.
wobo
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