[NTLUG:Discuss] Progress Report and Memtest86+ question [Was: Re: slightly OT - external USB hard drive]

[Allen Meyers]

I find this interesting and will follow it because today I had a
memtest86 on blue screen that went on and on. I thought it might be
due to the 160 GB HD recently installed as well as a a connected 160
GB data drive. I am running xp home in a huge extended with logicals
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, & Dreamlinux. But I am sure that has nothing to
do with it.
Intention here was not to hijack the thread just interject additional
interesting side note.


Allen Meyers
texas.chef94 at gmail.com







On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
>>> All
>>> (pardon the slightly OT)
>>> The machine in question is currently running Windows 98 SE
>>> The problem is to save the user content and convert the machine to Linux
>>> (only)
>>>
>>> The OT part is ...
>>>     (a) best way to get the data from the W98SE box? - neither my
>>> external USB hard drive or my USB flash memory will work on that OS
>>>     (b) the box has been crashing/freezing a lot, in what appears to be
>>> your basic "memory leak" problem - no errors messages presented - is
>>> there a good/safe way to test/inspect the memory?
>>>     (b.1) I hate to do all the work to find the Linux suffered on the
>>> machine as well, just because the memory was flaky.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>>> Regards
>>> Fred James
>>>
> All
> Progress:
>    Moved HD to enclosure and copied data to Linux machine - went quite well
>    Returned HD to original machine, plus added two more drives - plan
> is Linux (single boot) on the two new drives and mount the old data on
> old drive - it is a comfort factor for the owner of the box
>    Linux install failed - was good through partitioning, and then
> failed during the actual install
>       BTW - never could get a Live CD to boot on this box
>    Running Memtest86+ v1.70 (came with the install CD)
>       So far, 5 passes with one error in the 3rd pass
>
> Question:
>    Cure? or just replace the memory?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
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