[Xitami] Auto-restart and/or recovery?

[Richard Cunningham]

There are two other things that can cause errors:

1) The board getting hot.
2) Dirty RAM chips.

I had an old Packard Smell years ago that seems to get errors for no
apparent reason. While I was examining the running system with covers in
place, it ran like a champ. As soon as I put the covers back on, it started
producing random errors in different applicatons.

One thing that happened recently...I was running a program (it may have been
Norton something) and it said I had an error in RAM....and I tested several
times with the same result.  I opened my machine, pulled out the RAM chips,
used a pencil erasor on the edge connectors and reseated them. The "error"
went away.

I'm not saying either of these is your problem. But it's possible. That it's
an AMD and that it's 400MHz is not an issue. I mentioned earlier running on
a machine with 64 megs. It also happens to be AMD 200 mmx (an old IBM
Aptiva). I also tested the same version of Xitami on my newer XP machine
(1.4GHz and 512 mb RAM) in Win98 compatibility mode and it runs like a champ
on it. Speaking of compatiblity mode....does Win2000 have one. If it does,
use it.

Richard


> Nope, not a pre-install and not a Compaq. I installed myself and when this
> was going on earlier I already wiped everything and started over. It is
> Win2K with SP3 (having the same problems with SP2) on an AMD K6-2 400MHz
> with 256 megs of RAM.
>
> I am pretty much at my wits end here.
>
> Mike