[TriLUG] Machine crash

[Daniel Zhang]

Thanks, Greg! I have no idea what exactly Dell repairman did for my 
machine since I was not at home then. But I can try a re-run by swapping 
out memory.

-Daniel
Greg Kuhn wrote:

>My first thought would be to swap out the memory and re-run the memory tests. That is, if you have  extra memory laying around. When Dell replaced the mobo did he/she flash the bios to the lastest level? Just a few things that came to mind.
>
>Greg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Zhang <zhang at clinicaltools.com>
>Sent: Apr 22, 2004 9:34 AM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: [TriLUG] Machine crash
>
>This may be off Linux but it is hardware related.  I have a Dell 
>dimension 8200 running Win2000.  It had a motherboard failure two weeks 
>ago and Dell replaced it.  Now it crashes several time a night.  I ran 
>Norton Antivirus for about 30 minutes(and no virus reported on screen) 
>then NAV crashed.  Sometimes Explorer is not accessible.  Machine 
>crashes and reboots without any warning.  I ran memtest86(memtest86.com) 
>and it reports some memory failures.  But when I called Dell support, 
>they let me run Dell diagnose tools for memory test and it reports 
>nothing wrong.  Dell tech support promised to call me back but never.  
>Whom should I trust? memtest86 or Dell? Any suggestions?
>
>Dell Dimension 8200 (2 1/2 year-old)
>CPU: Intel P4 1.8 GHZ
>RAM: 512 MB
>Hard Drive: 80 GB
>
>TIA,
>
>-Daniel
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>