Alas, poor Otto...
24 June 2006 15:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_eggwhiteI 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.
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.
