[wellylug] Installfest / hardware guru's

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting JP <jumbophut at yahoo.co.in>:

> --- andrejwrote: > 
> Seeing the specs, you can probably disregard most of
> my last e-mail. I would guess your system can do DMA.
> 
> Disabling DMA still might help in the short run, but
> it's possible you have other problems, like a dying
> disk or mobo. Have you tried running something like
> this?
I'm suspicious of one of the HDD's. Once in
a while (after having faulted in a Linux-boot)
it will show up in BIOS POST as something that's
clearly not its model-number (looks like \~n's and
the like)... even though it's still giving DMA
errors with that drive unplugged ;\

I could provide a photo (jpeg) of the error from 
within Linux (no, I couldn't get that from a log
because the box just hangs there, never finishes
booting) (linux displays what the BIOS showed, too)
...

Cheers,
Andrej