--- Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2001 03:39, Net Llama wrote:
>
> > Since changing both memory & videocard are a rather expensive
> solution,
> > i'd save that one for last until all other culprits are ruled out.
> At
> > the very least, running the box on memtest86 or cerberus would be
> > advised before replacing any hardware that is not exhibiting blatant
> > signs of failure.
> >
>
> I'd argue that memory and video are the cheepest part of your system.
> That
> aside, it takes *nothing* to temporarily swap out these two high
> offending
> items.
You need to have replacement hardware to swapin. That costs money,
unless you happen to have it already sitting around.
> You can, as you know, run all the tests known to god and humans, and
> still
> these buggers bite you. A quick swapout *either* fixes the problem,
> permanently, or it's on to other things that take a little longer than
> the 5
> minutes to do the obvious. Swap them out. Less pain, all gain.
Oops's are rarely that easy to resolve. In fact, they are very, very
rarely hardware based.
Without more information, this is all purely speculation.
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