And this is Happy New Year, written , and concerning Uncategorized
Well, the New Year's celebrations begin soonish. In about an hour I'm going over to Jono's and we're recording the New Year edition of LugRadio, ready for release on Tuesday; and then the LugRadio team are going to party hearty until the dawn, or possibly until we all fall asleep drunk at 12.01am. I've also just driven somewhere to drop off a parcel and was guided there perfectly by my wonderful new satellite navigation box. Plus, Andy gave me The Dark Knight Strikes Again for Christmas yesterday, which I haven't even had time to read yet.
In other Andy news, he left his computer here because it's broken. If I drop an Ubuntu install CD in and hit Enter to boot, I get loads of segfault errors before it even gets to the first menu. The same thing happens with a Knoppix 3.4 CD, and it's apparent that the thing that's segfaulting is busybox; when Knoppix chucks a wobbler on booting it drops me to a shell, and using "cp" to copy some files throws a segfault. Why might this be? I'm totally at a loss. Booting the Windows 2000 setup CD also errors before it gets to asking any questions. I've run memtest86 from the Breezy install CD and that says that all the memory's fine. It's an Asrock K7V88 motherboard with 512MB RAM in it. Suggestions welcome.
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Omahn
Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
You might try restoring BIOS defaults, too; I once had a CPU segfault all over the place when the voltage was wonky. Maybe reseat the CPU while you're at it...
Eby
My first guess would have been the memory as well. I agree that you should probably try resetting the BIOS and see if that helps at all. If it doesn't then my guess would be the normal troubleshooting of removing everything but the vidcard/memory and work on up.
Asma Begum
Hello Sil,
I originally left some entries on your 'carphone warehouse' as days pass by page, i was wondering if you would so kind as to remove all entries for me? i know this is very random request but any help would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks
Ex Employee
i have worked within customer service for many years many and never had been subject to offering such very poor service - i know am working for reputable company and will never work or purchase any product from cpw
Whats the CPU/System temperature looking like? Sounds like something might be fried.