On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: > S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote: > >> The computer seems to "die" right about when X is about to start. > > > > Can you try <ctrl><alt><F1> (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console login is > > on? > > > OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times I've tried > to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops responding > (so <Ctrl><Alt><anything> doesn't work). This thing is behaving very > inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot and I was able to > log in. I'd say do a thorough memory check. The brief check done by a BIOS at boot time is not exhaustive enough and sporadic memory errors can cause all kinds of random woe. I recently pulled two 1GB sticks from my machine because memtest86+ found problems (actually I think the problems are with the motherboard slots rather the chips, but it amounts to the same thing). The machine lost half its RAM but now it works flawlessly. http://www.memtest.org poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
