old fashioned debug help Please

I put this Intellistation in years ago and worked great for a user until a year ago [first I heard about it was now].

attached see test fail screens from Inquisitor. it took an hour or so to trigger. I don't understand the codes yet. IN windows xp, it will bail within a few minutes of use. I ran memtest forever and no red. the fact that it ran hours on end with no systemwide fail is interesting. run anything else [disk?] and it will bail. graphics? I thought maybe the Nvidia Quadro card was fan-dead and triggering, but its not that. It is using its scsi subsystem. not ide.

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From what I am reading there, what it read and what it expected were two different things, hence the != (not equal to)

It could be Inquisitor found something memtest did not. Honestly, I would try a another additional program or two to see which one is correct.

Did you run memtest outside of Windows?

 

roger that.
memtest from bootable cd.
same as inquisitor.
I'm running the latter again now with the drive disconnected at the board.
just for grins.

if you have test suite you would suggest either/both win or linux, let me know. I don't mind torture..

 

You are running just plain ol' memtest right?

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/memtest86_ffaa.html

 

i ran memtest V5.01 from its own bootable media. no errors.

I have now been running one suite after another from Inquisitor's menu, with the hard drive itself unplugged. so the HDD is MIA but everything else is there. so far I have not been able to FAIL it.
I'm not encouraged by that, however: an odd 'one-off' message from the bios/POST came up after I unplugged the drive and booted: "incorrect checksum" - that was the first time that msg has occurred to my view.
spurious? I have no other indication of cmos issue.rolleyes

 

Incorrect checksum happens (usually) when the cmos battery is going dead.

That wouldn't cause the OS instability though.

Interesting results so far...I wouldn't have thought Inquisitor would have been using the drive while testing the memory.

 

the system has both scsi and ide - the hdd and dvd/r were both on the one ide cable. I don't think I can disable scsi - wish I could.
I simply removed the ide cable, then reseated it with just the dvd - no hdd.
have been running the most severe tests from the Inquisitor menu for many hours - so far no fail. I'm down to just one 'spare' ide drive of questionable repute - i'm going to hook it and load win, see if i can make that fail.
i'm totally skeptical because i've never seen hdd issues cause that kind of hard fault. i'm thinking short... short in the cable, short in the connector...

 

aha... FINALLY got around to checking ibm support. there is a 'critical' bios update this one does not have. hmmmm.. you know where i'm headed now

 

Keep me updated