F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

[Tod Merley]

first silly thoughts:

disk going

cmos battery

oh the joys!


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:

> Tod,
>
>
>  Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:36:41 -0700
>> From: Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com>
>> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Subject: Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps
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>> distrowatch.com search "old computers"
>>
>> 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 at colorremedies.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at 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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