[ltp] A21P CPU Soft Error Fixed - But How?? (A Bit OT)

[Bernard Tremblay]

Hi,

I have an A21P with similar memory and disk capacity.  The graphic card
is a Savage IX and there are issues with the driver of that card and
Xorg.  I had to disable graphic acceleration because of random freeze
with Xorg.  The dual head setup isn't working neither with that
particular card&driver.

Since then, it is very stable and reliable.  I don't really care about
grahic acceleration since this machine is used at work only : no games
at all... I run an up to date Ubuntu dapper on it.

I personnaly don't have windows on my machine but I don't think that
your win partitions nor windows would be the source the problem.
I would rather look carefully about the graphic card driver or hardware
...

Regards,
      BT




On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:52:43 -0400, "Donald B. Altman"
<dona@SingularTech.com> said:
> ** Reply to message from ted frater <ted.frater@virgin.net> on Sat, 22
> Jul 2006 05:00:33 +0100
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> Thanks for your note.  But the computer failed when booting
> Knoppix 5.x from CD or DVD, too.  In that case it wasn't reading 
> anything off the HD except, perhaps, the MBR.  How would that 
> cause a CPU soft error?
> 
> What is a CPU soft error?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Don A
> 
> 
> > Donald B. Altman wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> >  I run an A21P every day, its one of the most reliable thinkpads made.
> >  your problem is MS  software related. Dump MS unless you have to use it 
> > for something.
> > Try another hard drive in it. With a fresh installation of which ever 
> > distro you want.
> >  Mine came with 98 on it 
> > I use a Lilo boot manager  and have slackware 10 0n it.as well.
> >  Both work  perfectly .
> > I use 98 to run 16 bit programmes just to experiment.
> >  for example Netscape 3 on adsl
> > youve never seen anything so fast!!.
> >  Fastest browser in this setup.
> > 
> <SNIP>
> 
> -- 
> Donald B. Altman
> Singular Technologies
> Croton-on-Hudson,  NY
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