[H-GEN] Kernel Panic! :)

[Scott Burns]

Greg Black wrote:

>It's almost certain that you've described a machine with faulty
>hardware; the specific issue that is triggering it is not really
>important.  The most likely fault is RAM; next is disk; next is
>other stuff which is only worth checking after the first two
>have been eliminated.
>
>  
>
Hi,
    just thought I'd throw in my two cents.  The very first thing I 
check is the fans.  Clean out your heat sink and you just might be 
lucky.  A dead CPU fan can cause overheating of the CPU or components 
nearby - RAM tends to be close nowadays and you could get a false 
positive from memtest if so.  I've also seen a dead power supply fan 
slowly roast a tape drive from 15cm away.  In a 25 degree office the 
plastic front of the tape drive was warm to the touch - 40 degrees or more.

    Anyway, it's a one minute check that works for me.

    I also have to say that out of the 7 socket seven boards in the room 
with me now, one has a few zapped PCI slots and a dead IDE channel after 
a power spike, and a second need "warming up" with power running through 
it for 20 minutres or so before it will boot.  The other 5 are dead.  
The 4 socket 3s with 486s are running without a care in the world.  We 
are starting to see failed socket 7s at work, too.  The later models 
with 500MHz AMDs are fine, but the pentium Is are falling over more and 
more.  I don't know what other people are seeing but I've got no real 
faith in the pentium I systems anymore.

 Scott