Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot)

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.setup, comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot)
Date	2011-07-23 09:44 +1200
Message-ID	<98u99qF5aaU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 07/23/11 02:25 AM, Noob wrote:
>
> I'm starting to think that this might be a hardware problem,
> as both Linux AND the BIOS seem to have had troubles getting
> the MBR consistently. Something else I haven't mentioned:
> when Windows resumes from hibernation, the whole system
> sometime reboots (this started about 2/3 weeks ago), around
> the same time I changed the RAM from 2x512 to 2x1024.
>
> I tested the RAM, no errors after one hour of checking.
> The S.M.A.R.T. counters for the HDD claim the drive is
> "healthy".

How did you test the RAM, memtest86?  The symptoms do point to a memory 
problem.

If you have several GB of RAM it can take a long time to test.  I'd 
leave it to run over night.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 00:45 -0400
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:50 +1200
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 01:26 -0400
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-21 19:38 -0400
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:29 +0200
          Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:28 -0400
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 04:35 +0000
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-07-21 19:20 -0700
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 11:00 +0200
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-07-22 05:29 -0400
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 12:01 +0200
          Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 10:28 +0000
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-07-21 23:33 -0400
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 21:26 -0700
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:25 +0200
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Bob Willard <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> - 2011-07-22 12:17 -0400
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 18:35 +0200
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-22 18:41 +0000
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:52 -0400
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-23 02:23 +0100
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-22 19:19 +0000
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 20:51 +0200
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:54 +0200
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-24 15:29 +0000
          Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-27 11:36 +0200
            Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-27 12:13 +0100
            Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-27 20:48 +0000
              Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-28 10:43 +0200
              Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:44 +1200
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 10:05 +1000
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 20:58 -0400
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 11:31 +1000
          Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:18 +0100
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 19:02 +1000
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:37 +0100
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 17:34 +1000
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 21:25 +0200
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 08:15 +1000
          Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-24 23:08 +0000
            Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 09:46 +1000
              Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-25 02:19 +0000
                Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-24 22:38 -0400
                Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:38 +1000
                Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:34 +1000
            Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-08-03 21:56 -0700
              Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-08-04 08:15 -0500
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:10 +0100
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) gordonb.22upl@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-07-23 17:15 -0500
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:42 +0200
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-27 11:13 +0200
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-10-27 15:24 +0000
        Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-28 11:06 +0200
  Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
    Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-08-01 11:27 +0200
      Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> - 2011-08-06 10:00 -0700

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