T21 won't load XP or Suse.

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Brillig · #1 Post by **Brillig** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:30 pm

Got a T21 p3 800 128 off ebay this weekend. It ran fine for about 10 mins then froze. After the hard reboot, XP would hang during load. In safe mode, it wold hang at agp440, then after I disabled it in listsvc, it froze on mup. I decided a full reload was in order (I bought it to put Suse 9.3). Now, I can't load a thing on it. Chkdsk says the hdd is okay, but it freezes w/ 36 min left in install. I figured I'd just go with SuSe, but I get a warning that DMA is off and it will be slow. I thought I'd try to ride it out, but after ab hour or so I gave up. It was still loading hardware drivers, but the hdd led had not flashed at in the times I watched it. Is there a non OS specific diagnostic tool? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brillig

Nolonemo · #2 Post by **Nolonemo** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:09 pm

The first thing I'd check would be your memory.

Go get memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/

You should be able to run it from a boot floppy or download the ISO to burn a bootable CD.

You'll want to add a 256MB stick anyway if you run XP....

Brillig · #3 Post by **Brillig** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:20 pm

Nolo,
Tried the test that comes w/ Suse Install. It passed. I also tried changing bays. ect.

Brillig · #4 Post by **Brillig** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:30 am

I ran the thest again, but another odd thing popped up. Bios reads pIII 800, but the mem test shows the chip running at 647.5mhz. Is this the problem?

AbsoluteRaleigh · #5 Post by **AbsoluteRaleigh** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:55 pm

Brillig wrote:I ran the thest again, but another odd thing popped up. Bios reads pIII 800, but the mem test shows the chip running at 647.5mhz. Is this the problem?

haven't used that mem test but some software reads the 800 as a 647... For example, XP does this until a software patch is installed...

T21 won't load XP or Suse.

T21 won't load XP or Suse.

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