<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">How did you boot in order to run the memtest? That shows something is
<br>working.<br><br>If you're booting from a floppy for memtest, you might have problems<br>with your IDE bus. Does your setup BIOS properly show the drives? Check<br>cables, then check them again.<br><br>I've seen socket A mobos for around $30, don't know if you consider that
<br>"reasonable", but considering you can buy an entire machine for under<br>$100 it might not be.<br><br>BEWW</blockquote><div><br><br>I ran memtest from the fedora 6 install dvd... the same drive that fedora live failed from. BIOS shows all of the drives correctly.
<br><br>Yeah, I've found a few (just a few and mostly via boards) in the 30-40 range. But like you said, compared to the cost of an x2/am2 combo for 100 bucks...<br></div><br></div><br>