Alas, poor Otto...

I started to rebuild Otto (our front room server) today, only to find that the problem is hardware based rather than software. I've even isolated it to one of two DIMMs of memory - one 128meg and one 64meg. In other words, I pulled out all the RAM and tried each one until I got one that worked without BSODing on me mid-install.

Irritatingly, the first one worked, so I'm currently letting the machine install itself with only 64meg of RAM. It's not exactly being swift, as I'm sure you'd expect. Still, when it's done I'll bung the others back in one at a time and run some tests to see what's borked. I'm going to guess it'll be the 128meg DIMM, which would leave the machine with only 128meg in total. Not great.

Potential Plan:

Anyone interested in Chilli tonight? I'd expect people to chip in a little towards costs, but it would only be a couple of quid, most likely.

Let me know if you're interested... If there's enough folks interested then I'll go and get ingredients!

[Edit: Sod it. I'll buy some tupperware pots as well, and make chilli regardless of numbers. Let me know if you're interested, as I've currently only got three to feed. I can do at least another three to five people with ease.]