People,

See inline responses to three replies:


Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:22:23 +0930
From: Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>

On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 14:12 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
It sort of looks like a RAM problem to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be
faulty

Well, they can...  When it comes to recycling, all bets are off,
particularly if nobody took anti-static precautions while handling the
parts.


I haven't had that sort of bad SIMM frequency before but it is possible I guess . .


But, for the sake of a simple thing to try, I'd try cleaning the
contacts in the RAM sockets, and the on the RAM sticks, with electrical
contact cleaner and lubricant.  Likewise, for other plug-in cards.


OK, I will try that when I am on site again in a week or so.


If you have another power supply to try, substitute it.


Yep, did that with a new (current) PS - crashed on bootup . .


Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:48:37 +0200
From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>

On 08/31/2014 06:12 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,

I have been trying to build a usable PC out of old - but previously
unused hardware (motherboards, CPUs, RAM, 80GB Seagate disks, power
supplies) - but whatever combination I use I continually get core dumps
- I have reinstalled on numerous occasions and sometimes the PC works
for hours without a problem and then fails - but quite frequently it
fails on bootup!  I have tried with 2G RAM but that had problems so I
went back to 1G thinking that one SIMM might be faulty but no
combination works for any reasonable length of time.

Which CPU are you using? Unless it's a hardware defect somewhere, I'm
inclined to believe you could be trying to run an incompatible kernel.


Hmmm . . that MB is for Socket478 processors and I definitely installed the 32 bit F20 (LiveCD install) - how could it be incompatible? Would F20 64bit even install?


Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:48:40 -0700
From: Tod Merley <todbo...@gmail.com>

Yes, I think a HW list along with the SW being tried would likely prove
helpful here.


OK, that will have to wait till I can get back on site again too - of course my remote ssh connection doesn't work now because of another crash - I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did!


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote:

On 08/31/2014 06:12 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I have been trying to build a usable PC out of old - but previously
unused hardware (motherboards, CPUs, RAM, 80GB Seagate disks, power
supplies) - but whatever combination I use I continually get core dumps
- I have reinstalled on numerous occasions and sometimes the PC works
for hours without a problem and then fails - but quite frequently it
fails on bootup!  I have tried with 2G RAM but that had problems so I
went back to 1G thinking that one SIMM might be faulty but no
combination works for any reasonable length of time.


Which CPU are you using? Unless it's a hardware defect somewhere, I'm
inclined to believe you could be trying to run an incompatible kernel.


Thanks people - more info to come later!

Regards,

Phil.

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GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW      2001
Australia
E-mail:  p...@pricom.com.au
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