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Oh, think I may have discovered the issue.  Gotta love the gentoo boot cd's - one option for the kernels is to run memtest86.  Let's say that after running that, the memory showed up bad.  Now, the trick is, I'm not sure which stick is bad, or how bad it is, but I think Dell will want to replace both modules, as they're paired.  The other interesting side of this is the Dell utilities did NOT show a memory error.  Just tested this too with an alternate machine's memory - fixed all my problems.  *SIGH*  Ok, now for a long phone call with dell....
Jason

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On May 30, 2006, at 10:53 AM, McIntosh Jason wrote:

This is ALSO after I updated the bios (I'm still having problems after going to A07).  The new bios apparently changes the fan settings, and allows the machines to recognize newer CPU's.  Eh, I think the machine's hozed no matter what I do.  
Anyways, back to phone call...
Jason

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On May 26, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Woodsmall, Ryan ((IATS)) wrote:

I am literally doing a multicast SystemImager install on 38 GX620s at this moment.  I built both Red Hat Enterprise 3 and Red Hat Enterprise 4 images on the same box and never had any lockups or crashes.  These are the SFF 620s, but we installed ATI cards for accelerated OpenGL.

No problems here so far, but we'll see how these little devils hold up as lab machines when the students are in class.

  ryan woodsmall



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Subject: [MLUG] Urgh, I hate dell/intel (trying to install gentoo linux)

We just got in some new Optiplex GX620 machines with dual core  
processors.  Ya gotta love how crappy these machines are.  For a VERY  
overpriced, price, you get a ton of crap (literally).  On to the  
problems now that I've stated that:

I've been fighting with one of these machines for quite a while now.   
Initially, things went really well.  It seemed to be decently fast  
(although I still think the Opteron's/Athlon 64's are faster).   
However, after using this thing for a few days, I discovered some ...  
problems.  Now, some of these problems may be related to trying to  
use the 64 bit version of Linux, but it's very odd that it only crops  
up after the machine has been running for a day and a half.  And,  
that if I let the machine sit for a bit of time, whereupon I can run  
it for about 5 minutes, before I get problems again.  I'm guessing  
this is heat related, but it's DANGED annoying.  I've gotten a lot of  
kernel panics, or just complete hangs at various points.  I'm trying  
the x86 version now.  My first attempt to boot I received tons of  
errors, and now, well...  it booted, but then it felt really really  
slow... URGHHHH.

Ok, enough of that rant.  Anyone ever seen a similar issue with these  
machines?  I'm about to put my fist through it right now... ERGH.
Jason

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| http://poetshome.com/                |                           |
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|"How should I know if it works?  That's what beta testers are     |
|for.  I only coded it."                                           |
|(Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting)            |
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