Re: baffling linux bug / hardware problem

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 10:02:28 EST

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:53:10AM +1100, David Burrows wrote:
> I have a problem where my computer locks up during "Calibrating Delay
> Loop..". I have been using Linux on this same hardware for many years,
> and it only started doing this 2 days ago. It does not seem to matter
> what kernel version (2.0, 2.2, 2.4.17) I use or what medium I boot from.

I had an old Winchip box that did this. Turned out to be a bad SIMM.
Try running memtest86 for a while.

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