Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)

2013-04-24 Thread Joseph Areeda
I can't thank you all enough for bearing with me as I stumble my way through this. I now understand the logic behind running memtest uninterrupted for a long period (>24hr) and will do that. I have to take back my comment about kmod-nvidia. I repeatedly messed up /etc/selinux/config trying

Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)

2013-04-24 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 04/24/2013 11:03 AM, Joseph Areeda wrote: Thanks for the tips Konstantin, I assume that your recommendation for 24 hrs of memtest is cumulative and I can probably see the same results starting it each night when I quit for the day. When I mentioned SMART I was talking about the self tests no

Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)

2013-04-24 Thread Yasha Karant
A small comment: stress testing is cumulative only if the underlying system has no recovery mechanism. (An understanding of this in detail requires non-equilibrium statistical mechanics but can be summarized with non-equilibrium "thermodynamics"). My experience with failing electronics and ma

Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)

2013-04-24 Thread Joseph Areeda
Thanks for the tips Konstantin, I assume that your recommendation for 24 hrs of memtest is cumulative and I can probably see the same results starting it each night when I quit for the day. When I mentioned SMART I was talking about the self tests not the status that comes up. I've also cop