Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 13:52, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
Hmm I've faced lockups due to a hard disk failure and once a bad RAM module.
Power supply can be an issue too.
I guess the RAM could be the culprit. But I am not sure. How do I find out if RAM is the problem? memtest? Umm...the harddisk is pretty new and I would expect to see a lot of read / write time outs in dmesg if the harddisk was dying or had bad sectors. Nothing like that except that SCSI message. Any idea wat it means?
HDD comes into the picture after bootup, but your problem is on power on too. I am not sure about memtest. My system hangs within a few seconds of memtest but has been running well since 5 years. (Touch wood). Put in another RAM. Hynix has duplicates too.
Regards,
Rony.
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