Subj : Re: What's wrong with my comp?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Minderbinder
Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 05:57 am

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:49:24 -0700, Pandora Xero wrote:

> symptoms of my problem are:
> Random freeze when loading Linux or Windows. Frequent freezing in GUI in
> Linux
> occasional freezing in MS Windows GUI Even Memtest freezes sometimes
> linux gives me "psmouse.c - bad data from KBC - timeout bad parity"
> Windows Gives me something about not being able to find NTOSKRNL
> occasionally
> 
> My hardware is:
> AMD Duron 1.3
> 1152 MB DDR266 RAM
> Radeon 9100 graphics card
> Maxtor 80GB 5400RPM EIDE HDD
> WD 160GB 7200RPM EIDE HDD
> ASUS A7V600-X motherboard
> VIA KT600 North bridge
> VIA VT8237 South Bridge
> Thats about all the important info i can think of. My BIOS has options to
> control the UDMA mode of the hard drives. I have a choice of 0-6, and PIO
> modes 0-4 (separate selection). once again, any help is appreciated
> --Pandora Xero

In my experience with this sort of problem, a memory module is at fault
nine times out of ten. That motherboard is supposed to run up to DDR400.
Check that you are not running your memory above specification. Try
increasing the CAS Latency, and select 2T command rate instead of 1T. If
nothing changes, try removing the modules one at a time to see if just one
is flakey.

Minderbinder.

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