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h2sammo
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 Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject: Dell Dimension 2350 reboots randomly [solved] |
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i had another post trying to solve this problem but ic ant seem to find it.
i cannot find anything wrong with gentoo... maybe someone could help me troubleshoot possible causes.
as of right now i am trying to get conky to show me temps. maybe cpu gets too hot and bios restarts system. (i posted in the conky thread)
any help is appreciated.
thank you
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you checked your RAM? Maybe run a memtest? Try yanking some dimms and letting the system run with minimal ram. |
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h2sammo
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| msalerno wrote: | | Have you checked your RAM? Maybe run a memtest? Try yanking some dimms and letting the system run with minimal ram. |
i have 2 512 sticks. i will pull one out.
how can i run a memtest however? |
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msalerno
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Pretty much any livecd will have it, or you can emerge it and add it to grub/lilo.
emerge memtest86+
| grub.conf: | title=Memtest86+
kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin |
This is a little dated, but is worth reading. |
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h2sammo
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yeah... i left it with original mem stick, 512 mb, ran the memtest on it (no problems there).
it still rebooted randomly.
the machine has a new power supply and a pci video card. |
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| problem went away in time, after a few global updates. no hardware changes. |
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