IT WONT START!
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Alright something not good is happening! I have mepis 6.5, and i've been using it without beryl lately, just the redular KDE, and then yesterday i tried to put it on KDE with 3D, but that didn't affect anything, where as just a few days ago it worked fine. then this morning, when i tried turning on the computor, everything ran fine untill after the "splashy" screen, after that loadedd, there was just a black screen with a little white line at the top, and the cursor. so i tried booting from the disk, exact same thing! after the splashy screen, black screen, white line, and cursor! so i tried booting it from the mepis 6.0 cd, SAME THING! anyone know what's going on?
So far
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its found 412 errors, and 0 ecc Errors. it's been a few hours, so how does this look? good or bad?
if you found errors it looks
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if you found errors it looks bad. You need to check if you have warranty on those memory modules.... If you have a lot of memory try to see which one of the memory module is bad and remove that, it might work with lower memory, but it won't with bad memory.
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Memory Module?
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Do you mean the RAM chips?
Yes
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Yes, if your computer has more than one RAM chip, then you might be able to remove each of them in turn (with power off, of course (grin)) and reboot and test. When you get a clean run, with one of the chips removed, you then know that the chip that you removed is bad.
Jon
No computer is magic, no operating system is magic, no website is magic. They all require human interaction, thought, and responsibility to work.
We tried
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We tried taking out the different ram chips, and that didn't work, and its not a video card problem, because i can see everything. any other theories? my dad thinks it might be a software problem.
If memtest is coming up with
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If memtest is coming up with errors then there's definitely a hardware problem. The most common reason for errors in memtest is bad RAM (duh!) but that isn't the only possibility.
If memtest is showing errors clustered around a certain address it's almost always bad RAM.
If the errors are more randomly distributed the problem is often a failing power supply.
In addition, many older motherboards (vintage mid - late 90's IIRC) and a few newer ones have defective capacitors that eventually bulge & leak causing similar symptoms.
I've had all three of these happen to me over the years, leading to much wasted time trying to track down non-existent software problems...
Look Here
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Look here for a picture of a motherboard with leaking (bad) capacitors. If they are bad, then the entire motherboard is bad.
https://www.mepis.org/node/12992
Jon
No computer is magic, no operating system is magic, no website is magic. They all require human interaction, thought, and responsibility to work.
uh oh...
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looks like that's the problem, one of them is leaking black goop...well THATS BAD!
Sometimes possible to replace the capacitor(s)
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Sometimes possible to replace the capacitor(s)
-- you can google this -- here's one article
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195
Mike
You most likely experienced
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You most likely experienced some hardware failure, I'm not sure what's the nature of the failure... it might be memory, you can try at GRUB prompt the memtest option. (or it might be the video card)
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