On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:07 -0800, Les wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I am attempting to move my whole network to F8... Yes, I know that > something stable might be better, so lets skip those comments, OK? > > My current issue is with an HP Pavillion a8010n AMD K8 system with > Silicon Integrated Systems video on board, 1G of memory. It all seems > to work fine until (while following Finley's configuration site), I > install mplayer and mplayer codecs. At that point, when I bring up > video on the suggested bbc website, the system hangs. No error > messages, no control whatever, function keys will not return control, > and I have to power down to reboot. At this time I am running the > memory test on the system just to eliminate that possibility. Following > the pulse audio on going debate, I haven't seen anyone quite mentioning > the issue I am seeing. After this memory test runs, I will see if I can > see the error logs using chroot with the rescue mode of the F8 DVD. Any > suggestions on how to proceed will be gratefully accepted and followed. > > Regards, > Les H The memory test found a couple of bit errors after 6 iterations. I unplugged the memory chips, cleaned the gold fingers and re-inserted them. A 12 hour run showed no more issues. Hangups still occur. Regards, Les H
