[KLUG Members] Attempting to fix a server

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 at 09:22:12AM -0400, Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
> > Last week, I had a server tip over on me.   I believe that the SCSI card 
> > had pretty much up and died, and as a result we had some filesystem 
> > corruption, and the inability to boot.
> > At the time, the system would 'start' to boot, and then reboot when it 
> > started getting too far, and start over again.
> 
> Have you tried a memory test?  Reseated any DIMMs/SIMMs.  This sound
> allot like a potential memory problem.

I had a computer starting to act up a year ago.  I ran memtest86 (runs
out of lilo or your boot loader).  It quickly identified a problem in an
address area in my second DIMM.  Removed the DIMM, everything worked
fine again.

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Phillip Hofmeister