Mon, November 08, 2004 - 04:13 PM

Hi Jim:

I found on my HP OMNIBOOK that sometimes when it won't boot I have to drop
the battery out and then putit back in and it would then boot. didn;t mater
weater it was eCS or WindowsXP

Regards Al


In , on 11/08/2004 
   at 02:39 PM, Jim Showalter  said:


>This morning my Compaq laptop running eCS 1.1 refused to complete  booting
>due to trap 6, e, and d in various modules, including the  kernel, hpfs,
>afinetk (or close to it), pmshell.  Power off and reboot  would get part
>way thru boot, and then another trap in some module.  There was only one
>trap 6, the majority being trap d and a few trap e.

>I could boot WinXP on the same system with no problems, and in fact did  so
>several times.  Suspecting a memory problem, I downloaded Memtest86  and
>ran it thru a couple of passes over more than an hour, with no  errors
>discovered.

>Following the memtest86 run, I booted into eCS with out any problems 
>whatsoever.

>Does this indicate a possible intermittant memory problem, or maybe some 
>other component getting flakey, like maybe a bus, disk I/O, or a drive 
>going bad?

>Thanks for any thoughts.



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