On 04/01/2009 12:59 PM, Charles G Montgomery wrote: > I have a machine with what I suspect is a hardware problem, but I'm > not a hardware person. Perhaps someone might have a suggestion if > I describe the problem. > > The machine has an AMD 64 cpu, 2 GB memory, an ASUS A8V-XE > motherboard. I run Debian testing (currently squeeze). > > Booting starts normally and proceeds quite a way. It gets as far as > loading kernel modules and then starts issuing console error > messages about being out of memory. It starts killing processes > until it has killed everything but init, and then just scrolls > frantic out of memory messages forever -- only powering down can > stop it. > > I had two different kernels installed. The behavior is exactly the > same with either of them. I tried booting from an OpenCD, which > has Ubuntu on it. All the hardware detection and initialization > went fine. There were no error messages. But when it tried to > start up X, all I got was a brown screen with a cursor (movable > with the mouse) and no menus or keyboard response or any way to do > anything. > > I've taken the box down to Compucare in Peterborough. The fellow > there is a Windows guy and knows very little about Linux, but he > knows hardware. He has done memory tests and disk tests and found > nothing. He is going to copy a disk image to another machine and > see if things work there. But he's as baffled as I am. > > If anyone has an idea what the problem might be, or just suggestions > of things to test, that would be greatly appreciated. > Try one of the live CDs to see if that works. Alternately, try installing lenny and see if it gives you the same problem (you can 'upgrade' to squeeze later if you want).
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