[SLE] 9.0 installation problems (Part 2)
Hi All BINGO, HOORAY, HURRAH, CHOW I'm in business,installation enabled, and will probably be back with more questions in the near future. The problem turned out to be a sporadic memory corruption which took SuSE Mem Checker 6 hours to nail down, "old out - new in", problem gone. [Uncle Bills mem check never found it] MANY MANY thanks to all who inputted various suggestions with a special THANK YOU to BandiPat, Ian Laws and Alex Angerhofer. Cheers Mike L
Congratulations! How did you come upon the idea that memory was to blame? I suppose it is always something to be concerned but I rarely think of it when I try to install or upgrade on a machine. Best regards, Alex.
Hi All BINGO, HOORAY, HURRAH, CHOW I'm in business,installation enabled, and will probably be back with more questions in the near future.
The problem turned out to be a sporadic memory corruption which took SuSE Mem Checker 6 hours to nail down, "old out - new in", problem gone. [Uncle Bills mem check never found it]
MANY MANY thanks to all who inputted various suggestions with a special THANK YOU to BandiPat, Ian Laws and Alex Angerhofer.
Cheers Mike L
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On Monday 24 November 2003 04:28 pm, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
Congratulations! How did you come upon the idea that memory was to blame? I suppose it is always something to be concerned but I rarely think of it when I try to install or upgrade on a machine.
Best regards, Alex.
Hi All BINGO, HOORAY, HURRAH, CHOW I'm in business,installation enabled, and will probably be back with more questions in the near future.
Hi, M$ apps in my experiance have no mechinism for handling memory errors beyond what is offered in h/w and BIOS. This is a very dangerous approach. Recommendation: Always prepare for fresh installs by running the SUSE memtester app on the install media for at least 12 hrs. I have found 2 bad simms this way. All reputable memory vendors offer lifetime warrantees. My vendors accect the output of memtest without objection. To carefully test todays memory (512MB and up ) takes a long time; patience is needed. I know how hard it can be to wait overnightbut it is worth it. PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Nothing is as perfect as a Cultured Diamond There was never any Blood on a Cultured Diamond --
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Alex Angerhofer
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Mike L
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Peter B Van Campen