first silly thoughts:
disk going
cmos battery
oh the joys!
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au> wrote:
Tod,
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:36:41 -0700
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distrowatch.com search "old computers"
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> I like Puppy linux as a place to start. Probably Wary.
>
Yes, I have used Puppy in the past - it is worth a shot since I am getting
desperate . .
The other thing (which might just have been coincidence) is that when I
booted on the USB for the LiveCD, it did seem to stay up without any
problems - but the PC was not in that state for long periods of time so I
might just have been lucky at those times . .
Thanks,
Phil.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> > It sort of looks like a RAM problem to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be
>> faulty . .
>>
>> They could be. memtest86+ to find out. Another possibility is they're the
>> wrong SIMMs for the hardware, i.e. wrong timing or voltage. There might
>> be
>> BIOS settings for adjusting this.
>>
>
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E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
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