Machine Dead

[Lou Kamenov]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:55:18 +0000 (GMT)
Sam Pikesley <samdavidpikesley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> This started happening to me a while ago. No logs, no
> sign that anything was amiss, just BANG, the machine
> blew up. I came to the conclusion that it was a
> hardware thing. I tried a few things including
> changing the VGA card, changing the network card,
> changing the SCSI card etc., it was still happening. I
> eventually tracked it down to some dodgy RAM, acquired
> some more (SysAdmin privileges, the users never
> noticed ;), and all has been well ever since. 

exactly!
I had the same problem with my workstation 5.0-current,
and the problem was a faulty ram, so better check yours ;)

cheers,
-lou



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