[GLLUG] redhat 7.3 install problem on Compaq computer
Sean
picasso@madflower.com
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:06:37 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Yao-Ying Chien wrote:
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> The same computer is also running Windows 2000 pro for months continuously. Does that rule out the memory, CPU heat, reseating, hard drive? Or Linux has higher standards for hardware?
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not necessarily. bad ram usually only causes crashes when it is accessed
and the information is incorrect. Windows could have happily been loading
some libraries in that memory that were never used and thus no problem
ever showed up.