[FC5] Kernel panic and DMA error

[Hadders]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 17:01 +0800, Hadders wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >   Just to confirm, you're saying that the box has run fine for some
>> > time, you've upgraded nothing (in terms of hardware), but now it's
>> > started having problems?
>> >
>> > Corrupt RAM can cause all sorts of headaches, to help eliminate that,
>> > I'd nip over to www.memtest.org, grab the latest bootable iso and run
>> > that for a few hours.
>> >
>> > It's a good place to start.
>>
>> Plus, does lm_sesnros support your board?
>> Run (as root) $ sensors-detect [8], let it try to find you i2c chipset
>> and configure it - it should give you CPU/Chipset temperature/fan
>> speed/voltage/etc.
>> More-ever, configure smartd [8] to monitor the hard disk health and use
>> smartctl [8] to check the current status. (Usually smartctl -a <device>)
>>
>> - Gilboa
>> [8] means man 8 XXX.
>
> Thanks for the help. I tried memory check but nothing is wrong with
> it. By the way this FC5 box is on Duron chip and guess the motherboard
> is also quite old. "sensor-detect" detects mostly the NVIDIA things
> only, not a thing about CPU/Chipset temp/fan speed. I guess its not
> supported.
>
> I guess something is wrong with my cable. I changed the cable and now
> its fine again. I used to leave this machine unattended for minimum of
> 3 days straight and its running without complain. I don't know if its
> going to show same thing again. Post it later if porblem occurs.
>
> Thanks again!
>
Glad to hear it worked out for you. I seriously hate intermittent 
hardware faults, they're the bane of our existence.

;-)