[NTLUG:Discuss] Progress Report and Memtest86+ question [Was: Re: slightly OT - external USB hard drive]

[Fred James]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
>   
>> Fred James wrote:
>>     
>>>> All
>>>> (pardon the slightly OT)
>>>> The machine in question is currently running Windows 98 SE
>>>> The problem is to save the user content and convert the machine to Linux 
>>>> (only)
>>>>
>>>> The OT part is ...
>>>>     (a) best way to get the data from the W98SE box? - neither my 
>>>> external USB hard drive or my USB flash memory will work on that OS
>>>>     (b) the box has been crashing/freezing a lot, in what appears to be 
>>>> your basic "memory leak" problem - no errors messages presented - is 
>>>> there a good/safe way to test/inspect the memory?
>>>>     (b.1) I hate to do all the work to find the Linux suffered on the 
>>>> machine as well, just because the memory was flaky.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fred James
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> All
>> Progress:
>>     Moved HD to enclosure and copied data to Linux machine - went quite well
>>     Returned HD to original machine, plus added two more drives - plan 
>> is Linux (single boot) on the two new drives and mount the old data on 
>> old drive - it is a comfort factor for the owner of the box
>>     Linux install failed - was good through partitioning, and then 
>> failed during the actual install
>>        BTW - never could get a Live CD to boot on this box
>>     Running Memtest86+ v1.70 (came with the install CD)
>>        So far, 5 passes with one error in the 3rd pass
>>
>> Question:
>>     Cure? or just replace the memory?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>> Regards
>> Fred James
>>
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> At this point the question I have is "How much time have you invested
> and what's the cost of new hardware?"  Without the answers to those
> questions I wouldn't make a suggestion.  With Win98SE as the previous OS
> it doesn't sound like a motherboard and RAM replacement would cost too
> much.  I've tried to help people before by avoiding cost and it has
> turned into a fiasco.
>   
Leroy Tennison
Cost is of course always a consideration, but in this case not so much 
as trying to trace the issue ... your suggestion then is to replace both 
the MB and the memory?
By the way (for those following the thought), I did do a visual 
inspection of the capacitors while I had the case open, and I found 
nothing out of the ordinary that I could see
Regards
Fred James