-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: [snip] > Last week I lost a power supply on my FC4 > machine at home. I put in a new one and > everything was find for a day or so. It > then froze. /var/log/messages showed a kernel > BUG at include/linux/list.h:166. That line > is sanity checking a double linked list. > I dropped back to a previous kernel and after > a while got the same result after a day or so. > > I loaded the memtest86+ rpm and booted it. > It ran fine till test 5 which is copying large > blocks of data. I got 762 errors. The box has > 2 256 Meg dimms. I pulled one out and ran the > test again. Got errors at the same address > ranges (at least the ones I saved). I swapped > in the other memory dimm and ran again. Same > errors, same addresses. Very suspicious. I've had PSUs go with a spike in the past which has trashed PCI cards, let alone DIMMs/memory controllers/bridges/CPUs. Do you have another box you can relocate the RAM to for testing? Perhaps the Mobo got kicked? C. - -- Craig McLean http://fukka.co.uk craig@xxxxxxxxxxx Where the fun never starts Powered by FreeBSD, and GIN! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDy70kMDDagS2VwJ4RAn47AKC1PPLCcxah4Gs7ZBUXjl0gI2+3gACeN+Ab ufcgyi4toWmMTF0Ye55YFfY= =z2Fj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
