I just had 2 bad sticks of memory on my Soyo Dragon+ board. 2 256MB Micron DDR sticks. One only showed up as 128MB, and the other still showed up as 256MB, but crashed with it in. I replaced it with Samsung DDR, and it's been working fine ever since. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at techmonkeys.org] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:35 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Athlon Unstability > > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:46:04PM -0600, Jay Kline wrote: > > Ok, I think I got it... a bad stick of memory. I pulled > it out, and my > > system seems stable now, though noticably slower :-( (down > to 256Mb) > > [Attempt at answering many questions from this thread at once] > > Temperature monitoring: > http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ If anyone needs the sensors.conf for the SiS 735 motherboards you can contact me privately. The above program is for interfacing with the actual devices on the motherboard, I use an X app called wmalms that sits nicely in the taskbar: http://www.geocities.com/wmalms/ BIOS: If you're running an SiS 735 motherboard, or any other really, make sure you're running the latest BIOS when you encounter odd problems like this. Watching the temperature of the system from the BIOS is misleading, the system is doing virtually nothing, so the temperature drops quickly, I notice a sharp increase when running processor intensive tasks (compiling, rtcw, dnetc) while the rest of the time it will hover around 125F (Athlon 1.3ghz "c" core) if anyone else with an athlon system uses temperature monitors I would be interested in hearing what their average temperature is, I could find no data on AMD's website about what they should be, and what safe limits were =/ > > Jay > -- Matthew S. Hallacy CACU, PWGCS, and BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list