[plug] strangely crashing PPro [long]

[Craig Ringer]

>> Next to PSU issues, memory failures have been my second most common
>> cause of hardware "misbehaviour".

Hmm. Well, I've picked up 4x32mb 72pin EDO DIMMs to drop in it. With 
128mb of RAM, it should be able to run swap-less, and that may help 
isolate the problem.

> I second that, also cpuburn is a great app for testing the effectiveness 
> of your cooling and cpu/northbrige stability under high thermal loads.

Hmm... I'll try that. I just hope it doesn't end up working literally ;-)

> Is the machine running UDMA on the hard disk?

Both UDMA and basic PIO mode have been tried.

Craig Ringer