I inherited 5 identical computers, Pentium III 800 MHZ. They were used as windows workstations by the company next door that went belly-up. My plan has been to load Linux on them and replace our windows file servers. The problem is that I ran memtest86 and they ALL fail. The memtest documentation talks about false positives, so I thought memtest just didn't play well with this system. I tried loading Linux (Mandrake 9.2) on a few of them. One install complained of a memory problem, but two succeeded and seem to work ok. However, when I copied a .5 gig file across the network, it came across corrupted. How can this be? These computers have been used apparently successfully for at least a couple years. I have tested the memory chips in other systems and they all pass; I have put new memory in these systems and they all fail. Things I have tried so far: -Swap memory chips -Set bios to fail-safe defaults -Twiddle various bios entries that deal with ram Should I just write these guys off, or is there something I can do to fix this? Thanks, Patrick McCabe _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list