[GLLUG] Re: Still having problems

[Sean O'Malley]

Try putting the IDE controller your cd-rom is on into pio4 mode instead of
best available.



On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Thomas Alan Hearn wrote:

> Still no go,
>  I tried switching the memory sticks with no luck.  Also tried disabling
> just about everything in the BIOS, USB, IEE1394, Parallel and Serial, and
> still getting the same problems.
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far,
> Tom
>
> Sean O'Malley writes:
>
> > It _might_ not be a bad memory issue, but...  When the OS loads if say in
> > the spot where the bad memory is and it never uses it, you won't see any
> > ill effects. You will get ill effects if it does try to read from it. For
> > example, if under windows or linux you have say the driver for a car jack
> > loaded into that part of memory, it doesn't matter because you don't own a
> > car, thus the OS never tries to utilize the software loaded into that part
> > of memory.
> >
> > If say one day you do want to use your automated carjack, then it will act
> > flaky.
> >
> > Memory is consistantly allocated the same way for every OS at boot
> > typically, (depending on the system) it will load slot 1, until it
> > is filled then start with slot 2, etc. So if your your first memory module
> > is bad but you swap it into the second slot. It changes what data is
> > being stored in that memory by the OS. Thus it crashes in a different
> > spot. It only works if you can _consistantly_ get the software to load
> > identically like off a cd where nothing is changed.
> >
> > If the swap, doesn't change anything. You can probably cross that off your
> > list as a culprit.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Thomas Alan Hearn wrote:
> >
> >> Sean,
> >>  The memory works fine with all other operating systems on the machine, I've
> >> installed windows, and even Redhat 9.0 (Shrike) on it, with no problems.
> >> Slackware 10 also runs fine??
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> Sean O'Malley writes:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Rich Clark wrote:
> >> >> I'd say good call.  You may also want to question if the memory is not the
> >> >> problem also.  I had a stick here that for love nor money would work in
> >> >> any machine I put it in, most running Mandrake 10 Comm on several, and one
> >> >> with Windows XP on it.  Needless to say, I returned it.
> >> >
> >> > If you can, swap slot 1 and slot 2 of your memory around and see if that
> >> > changes the point at which it is crashing consistantly. If it does then it
> >> > is most likely bad memory.
> >> >
> >> > That should at least eliminate one of the choices in the 'guessing why I
> >> > hate x86 hardware' game.
> >> >
> >> > Does hyperthreading still cause whacky crashes?
> >> >
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