Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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- 29 Aug 2002
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Some of you might know from this thread that I have been tinkering with some of my legacy machines - now these are no old pieces of total s**t they are both within the past three years, so I figure deserve to have some more active life.
After shed loads of effort I have extracted enough GB to feel ready to reformat one fo them - and was quite looking forward to it....
in goes CD whir whir whir
get to the bit with the accept license ....
BSOD!
This has happened twice now - given that this is a LARGE part of my reason fro the activity, what would you do in my shoes? Is there any point persisting to format and re-install, in the face of a BSOD at that point? I once had this before on a new machine, trying to cure instability, turned out to be bad ram - in this case that ram has been stable in past so I am more inclined to suspect heat issues or somesuch.
I may persist anyway, but would like opinions as to what I am in for.... Needs be I may undertake a salvage operation on the machine - not really sure how much effort it is worth, could build better at quite low costs now when you're down to the Athlon/Duron 1900/1000 levels with onboard audio/video like these are.
Anyway, I'll think again before messing around in quite the way I have - there's a lot to be said for a virgn build!
[EDIT] BSOD seems to mention USB port driver and this thing has USB keyboard/mouse, could that be a factor? going to try going straight for F8 next time I get to that screen! [/EDIT]
After shed loads of effort I have extracted enough GB to feel ready to reformat one fo them - and was quite looking forward to it....
in goes CD whir whir whir
get to the bit with the accept license ....
BSOD!
This has happened twice now - given that this is a LARGE part of my reason fro the activity, what would you do in my shoes? Is there any point persisting to format and re-install, in the face of a BSOD at that point? I once had this before on a new machine, trying to cure instability, turned out to be bad ram - in this case that ram has been stable in past so I am more inclined to suspect heat issues or somesuch.
I may persist anyway, but would like opinions as to what I am in for.... Needs be I may undertake a salvage operation on the machine - not really sure how much effort it is worth, could build better at quite low costs now when you're down to the Athlon/Duron 1900/1000 levels with onboard audio/video like these are.
Anyway, I'll think again before messing around in quite the way I have - there's a lot to be said for a virgn build!
[EDIT] BSOD seems to mention USB port driver and this thing has USB keyboard/mouse, could that be a factor? going to try going straight for F8 next time I get to that screen! [/EDIT]