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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Not surprisingly, memtest indicated that there was a problem with my 
4x64MB SIMMs in this computer.  We tested with them in various 
configurations, switched them around, put in two at a time, and the 
failure was always at the same location - 64.1 and 96.1 MB.  This does not 
equate with one bad SIMM out of four.

In the first computer we had put them into they registered as 16MB not 
64MB.  A website said they only work with some Intel boards but I tried 
them anyway in the DFI where they came out the right size and then got the 
various error messages about NULL pointers and other crashes.

We then put a pair of these in a Soyo motherboard with Epeq (?) chips, not 
Intel, and they came out 64MB each and passed the memory test (test 2 was 
the crucial one).  The board and SIMMs were given to us by the same 
person.

We have one other Soyo motherboard from James which has bad capacitors but 
this one is old enough that they seem okay.

So the memory was okay but the board was not happy with it.  SOmeone else 
assured me this was a hard drive problem.

Linux now works except for the 'Not a kernel image' problem and if I put 
on Win9X that will go away too but I HATE WINDOWS!  And then Xvesa would 
not work.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Andrew wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Last time I tried to run startx with the xmodmap .xinitrc I had to go into 
> > Bl3 and run e2fsck on BL2, again, for the same set of error messages 
> > produced by linux unzip:
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer.....
> >
> > While in Bl3 I mounted the Cd-ROM drive and then tried to unmount it and 
> > got the same Unable to handle kernel Null pointer dereference at virtual 
> > address 0000.
> >
> > Does anyone else have experience with a desktop pentium that gets these 
> > odds sorts of errors with Bl2 and Bl3?
> Sindi,
> I have had similar errors with all kinds of linux systems. The culprit was 
> always the RAM.
> Andrew
>
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