Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 June 2004 09:10 am, Lanman wrote: ->Ronald; Windows is renown for their so-called "memory manager" and it is ->often the reason for system crashes. Due to the way it operates, it ->could easily be quite some time before a flaw in your RAM could have ->been missed. If one module of RAM

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-27 Thread Lanman
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:36 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: ->Ron, did you try swapping out the ram? Sometimes windows will run on faulty ->ram but linux does not. Been there before. HTH Nope - not sure I have any extra Ram of that spec for his machine - of course I could try any

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:41 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: ->I would definitely try another hard drive first, thats what it sounds like to ->me. I just bought a brand spanking new P4 3ghz 512mb ram 120 gb hard drive ->several months ago, within the first week the hard drive went very similer ->simto

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:45 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: ->Has there been a windows update, say about 2 weeks ago? ->You might want to do an erase disk and reinstall a mandrake system. Hmm, we've got fast cable-modem service here, but I don't think *I've* updated it in a while. I'll have to ask my

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:36 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: ->Ron, did you try swapping out the ram? Sometimes windows will run on faulty ->ram but linux does not. Been there before. HTH Nope - not sure I have any extra Ram of that spec for his machine - of course I could try any Ram as long as the M

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 26 June 2004 17:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I'm having some major problems with my sons 1.3 Duron powered Soyo setup. He's > dual-booting Win98SE and v9.2 of Mandrake off an 80 gig Maxtor HD. He's got > 384 megs of memory. I've had his system dual-booting with Win and Linux for >

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-26 Thread Dan Gordon
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I'm having some major problems with my sons 1.3 Duron powered Soyo setup. > He's dual-booting Win98SE and v9.2 of Mandrake off an 80 gig Maxtor HD. > He's got 384 megs of memory. I've had his system dual-booting with Win and > Linux for abo

Re: [newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 26 June 2004 05:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I'm having some major problems with my sons 1.3 Duron powered Soyo setup. > He's dual-booting Win98SE and v9.2 of Mandrake off an 80 gig Maxtor HD. > He's got 384 megs of memory. I've had his system dual-booting with Win and > Linux for abo

[newbie] Problems here.

2004-06-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm having some major problems with my sons 1.3 Duron powered Soyo setup. He's dual-booting Win98SE and v9.2 of Mandrake off an 80 gig Maxtor HD. He's got 384 megs of memory. I've had his system dual-booting with Win and Linux for about 2 years now - no major problems. About 2 weeks ago he told