huanix

I have fallen into this trap before. A computer begins locking up, either frequently or infrequently, and I attribute it to software errors and keep plugging along, consistently frustrated that the software I’m using was allowed to escape the developers hands to corrupt my system. In this case, I had been frustrated with Knoppmyth for about two months. I had somehow relinquished myself to blaming my problems on Cecil Watson, the benevolent creator of Knoppmyth, rather than my own hardware or system admin skills. Today I tried for the 15th time to get a good stable install of Knoppmyth running on my Asus P4S800 mobo with an Intel SL7PM processor (3.0E  GHz) and 1 gig of Corsair CMX1024-3200PT ram. This was my old desktop setup (before I switched to AMD64) and it always ran like a champ. So needless to say I was rather disenfranchised to find it crashing repeatedly with Knoppmyth.

The Point of my story is that I DID eventually run a memory test before attempting an install and discovered that the RAM had errors-  which is USUALLY the answer when you have intermittent undiagnosable failure. I went to the corsair helpdesk (http://www.corasir.com/helpdesk)  and answered a few quick questions; they accept a failed memory test as grounds for replacement under their lifetime guarantee, so I expect an RMA and a new chip rather soon. I think if this works out and my Mythbox runs smoothly again I’m going to share some good Christmas tidings with Cecil. (Paypal style!)