Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 01:55:58 09/06/03
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On September 06, 2003 at 04:11:18, Rick Bischoff wrote: >Hi all, sorry for the offtopic post, but I trust all of you more than Joe Schmoe >at the local computer store. Anywho, I have a very weird transient hardware >error.. > >System) >AMD Athlon-XP 1700+, 512 MB PC-100 RAM in an ABit KR7A motherboard. >Video card is GeForce3 Ti200 >Sound card is SoundBlaster Live! >Ethernet card 1 is Intel Pro Express 100 >Ethernet card 2 is generic Linksys >Hard drive is 40GB Western Digital > >It is currently running a fresh (as in installed yesterday after giving up on >trying to install Gentoo (see below)) Windows XP install, fully patched. All >components seems to be working ok. > >Symptom 1) >I was trying to install Gentoo Linux the other day and "gcc" would have random >segmentation faults during the build process. For example, during the kernel >build, "make bzImage", gcc would report an internel error, segmentation fault. >I would then run "make bzImage" again and it would compile the file it >previously crashed on just fine. > >Symptom 2) >Fritz 8 crashes during Full Analysis at random times. It also crashed during a >normal game after a fresh install. > >History-- >This problem had been occuring for, oh, say the last 6 months, but since my main >machine is the G4, I just let this box sit here and be a router... But I want to >start using this computer again. So, I suspected the problem was with >overheating, and I replaced the CPU fan with a stock fan from the computer store >and added a case fan and also cleaned up tons of dust. The problem is still >here even though my CPU never goes above 51 celsius. > >I did sucessfully run the memtest program and it passed in 27 minutes, so I am >pretty sure it is not a memory problem-- which leaves two things... The CPU is >faulty or the hard drive is-- how do I determine which it is? Money IS AN >object to consider here, I would like to get it back up with minimal cost. Try the mersene prime torture test for several hours. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm I do not reconginise the motherboard, but if it is a nfroce dual chipset thing then they can be very sensitive to memory timings. Run memtest overnight as well. Frank
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