Quoting Patrick McCabe <patrickm at citilink.com>: > I inherited 5 identical computers, Pentium III 800 MHZ. They were used > as windows workstations by the company next door that went belly-up. My > plan has been to load Linux on them and replace our windows file servers. > > The problem is that I ran memtest86 and they ALL fail. The memtest > documentation talks about false positives, so I thought memtest just > didn't play well with this system. I tried loading Linux (Mandrake 9.2) > on a few of them. One install complained of a memory problem, but two > succeeded and seem to work ok. However, when I copied a .5 gig file > across the network, it came across corrupted. > > How can this be? These computers have been used apparently successfully > for at least a couple years. I have tested the memory chips in other > systems and they all pass; I have put new memory in these systems and > they all fail. > > Things I have tried so far: > -Swap memory chips > -Set bios to fail-safe defaults > -Twiddle various bios entries that deal with ram > > Should I just write these guys off, or is there something I can do to > fix this? > > Thanks, > Patrick McCabe > > What kind of boxes are they? Could be some sort of a bug specific to that specific machine. Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list