Thanks for the suggestions ... I'm running memtest86 now. How long should this run? Now running about an hour ...
I'll check the other suggestions later. -------------- > On 2014-01-14 11:26, j...@actionline.com wrote: >> I finally rebooted again, and saw a screen full of messages including >> "unable to handle kernel paging request" > ... I think there might be a hardware > problem somewhere in this machine. > > You can attempt to diagnose the problem by booting from a rescue > system. If those things fail in a similar manner, it's almost certainly > a hardware problem. (If the rescue system works fine, then your Mint > install is borked, but that seems sort of unlikely.) Or if a rescue > system works fine except when you start up a GUI, it's a problem with > the graphics card. Or if it works fine until you try to start DHCP, > it's a problem with the NIC. The other thing to check is the case and > airflow--make sure there aren't any dust bunnies blocking the fans or > anything. If you suspect the RAM is the problem, the memtest86 option > on many rescue systems will probably say something if you had bad RAM. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss