On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: -> That said, if the system can't run 'mprime -m', 17 overnite, ->without stopping on hardware error, IMO the system hardware is ->not stable enough for Linux use. If it can run cpuburn for an ->hour its bulletproof. Many Windoze boxes will fail cpuburn, ->specially ready mades (Dell, et al, and laptops). Shouldn't even ->try it.
Listen to what Tom says - we went thru this with my setup just a few months ago. Turned out to be overheating. I couldn't run cpuburn for longer than a couple of minutes without locking up hard. Added some cooling/mods and now it runs it for an hour or more... -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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