--- Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
Swap the memory out with known good memory but maybe it is the slot the memory is in, got any
empty memory slots? Try swapping the modules over to empty slots.
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