On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:17, Praise wrote:
Alle 10:06, giovedì 7 agosto 2003, Anders Karlsson ha scritto:
And to settle claims about hardware faults, the X31 has run memtest for 18 hours plus not throwing up any errors. I think that should have spotted problems if there were any.
Here it is a nice script which will test the stability of your machine, if your problem were not just ram but something else (like overheating).
A friend in the department used to work in PC Hardware Support in
Greenock (IBM) and he queried this with their thinkpad specialist. The
answer that came back was that it was either the fan or the planar that
was the problem.
To comment on the stability of the machine is that using a 2.95.3
compiled kernel does not give adverse effects, apart from the visor.o
module now hanging the machine. The other thing done was to put two pens
under the laptop giving a small space for heat to dissipate and one or
both of these things has really made a difference.
Taking into account what the thinkpad dude was saying, I would be
inclined to go with the assessment that there is a potential hardware
problem. I will try and get the fan replaced and see if that helps,
otherwise a planar replacement will be required. *urgh*
Many thanks for the suggestions people have come up with. All of them
will be put to use to test the stability of the system.
Regards,
--
Anders Karlsson