Re: won't boot; kernel panics; crc error; memory dump -- help?

From: Erik Svensson (ZekeVarg_at_linux.se)
Date: 01/25/05

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    Have you tried to unplug the pci-cards? It sounds like hardware trouble
    to me and since you have sound and video built in on the motherboard you
    can at least try and see what happens.

    tis 2005-01-25 klockan 16:05 -0500 skrev nori heikkinen:
    > hey all,
    >
    > i'm getting a series of very, very strange errors -- and erratic, at
    > that.
    >
    > brief background: a couple weeks ago, my computer just went down.
    > magically. i posted to this list about it[1], ran a memory test, and
    > ended up discovering some bulging capacitors on the motherboard. this
    > article[2], and many of my friends, said this meant the mobo was bad.
    > so i got a new one. also upgraded to DDR while i was at it, and got a
    > new case & power supply, since the new mobo used J3.
    >
    > at this point, the only things that are NOT new in the computer are my
    > two PCI cards (sound & video (which i have both of on-board, but i like
    > my sound card, dammit)), the two IDE hard drives, and the two IDE cd
    > drives i have. hda - d respectively.
    >
    > but still, it does not work! more information you say? when i push the
    > power button, one of a handful of things happens:
    >
    > 1. nothing. it just whirrs, and doesn't even get as far as the
    > BIOS.
    >
    > 2. it gets to the BIOS (correctly recognizing the amount of memory,
    > and the location of the drives), and hangs.
    >
    > 3. it gets past the BIOS, starts to load LILO, but then while doing
    > so, says:
    >
    > crc error
    >
    > -- System halted.
    >
    > 4. it loads Linux using LILO successfully, but then kernel panics,
    > saying "improper root= device" or something like that.
    >
    > 5. it loads Linux using LILO properly, but then dumps pages and
    > pages of memory addresses in hex like this [<abcdef09>] on the
    > screen, and doesn't stop.
    >
    > when something like (4) happens, i think to myself, "self, this sounds
    > like you just have LILO misconfigured somehow. you should just pop in a
    > rescue disk like Knoppix, and re-run LILO through a chroot." so i try
    > that. when trying to boot off a Knoppix CD, one of the following
    > happens:
    >
    > 1. nothing, as above in (1).
    >
    > 2. it gives me a big blue screen and large console-y characters, and
    > says it's starting to load Knoppix, but then, after loading the
    > kernel, everything blacks out, and nothing more happens.
    >
    > basically, i can't boot -- not into my regular hard drive; not into
    > knoppix.
    >
    > note that when i took the hard drives into work and tried to boot off it
    > there, it did just fine.
    >
    > this is a new motherboard, though -- and i see no bulging capacitors, or
    > any obvious sign of damage. i have a warranty on it, but is it the mobo
    > that's bad?
    >
    > basically, i'm confused as heck at this point. what could a possible
    > culprit be? as far as i can tell, my hard drive is just fine. i can't
    > even run memtest86 on this new memory, as bootable CDs don't so much
    > work (see "trying to boot into Knoppix," above). i'm miffed.
    >
    > any suggestions?
    >
    > thanks!
    >
    > </nori>
    >
    > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg01259.html
    > [2] http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195
    >
    > --
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    > 

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