Thu, 02 Sep 2004
strange lockups fixed by flashy cables
After reshuffling the inside of my computer I started getting wierd random lockups - Wolfenstein Enemy Territory would crap out with a signall 11, compiles sometimes messed up, etc.. Memory tested OK, and a lot of reseating of everything didnt help. For a while I blamed it on the proprietry Linux nvidia drivers, and went on a raft of upgrades, downgrades and crossgrades that didn't help at all.Turns out the problem was the older crappy 40 pin ide cable I had used for my the first hard drive mainly because it was the only one long enough (by and extra few centimetres) to reach.. Replacing it with a Thermaltake IDE cable fixed the problem, now the box is working perfectly.
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