On Thursday 08 Apr 2004 9:25 am, R.Raghuram wrote: > On Thursday 08 Apr 2004 7:27 am, Vinu Moses wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 08 April 2004 05:14 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > I have Athlon 2400+ in A7N8X deluxe MB with 256 MB 333Mhz DDR SDRAM. > > > While Booting I get voice message normally from BIOS that "Power on > > > Self test completed Now operating system will load." Sometimes that > > > "system failed memory test. Now operating system will load." I have > > > dual booting windows me and mandrake 9.2. Many times only mandrake > > > linux hangs not windows. I want to know from other users of this MB > > > whether it is MB specific incompatibility or my RAM is really bad. > > > > If you think that the problem is RAM based, you could check it with > > memtest. > > I guess it's RAM that's acting up since my friend's PC with the same config > as above works flawlessly with WIN2k+FC1+MDK9.1+ SLK9.1 . As Vinu > suggested, run memtest or better still plug the RAM into someother box you > might have and check. A couple of posts earlier someone posted a link to > memtester which didn't require a boot disk . You could try that ? One > pointer could be towards the BIOS : try disabling mem check at boot time > and see what happens. I kinda came across a similar problem while loading > RH9 on a P4 box and solved it by disabling the 'Scan Flash Memory Area' in > BIOS. memtest indicates no error in two runs. I didn't see any provision to disable memory check in bios. -- L.V.Gandhi linux user No.205042 http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
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