Bad Ram!
Found a good deal the other night on some new parts bundled and got about 40% off ($124 bucks instead of $204). Yesterday I got it all put together carefully, installed Ubuntu on the box and went to bed happy. Then when I woke up this morning, there is kernel panic errors, and all sorts of smokescreens going up.
I finally started with the remove everything strategy, and soon as one of the Ram chips was removed, everything was fine. Did a memtest86 on each of them, and sure enough one passed fine, and one failed miserably.
Return! This Ram is going back soon as I can make it to Langley. Had another 1Gb stick so dropped that in there until I get it replaced. Everything else worked great.
For anyone who is looking for answers, I found that these kernel panic errors can be due to just about anything (I know, I didn’t like hearing that either). From my searching, It went from Software bugs (So try different OS disks if possible), a short on the motherboard, bad IDE controllers, mismatched IDE devices (hard drive and cdrom on same cable), Bad Ram slots (try just one chip at a time in one slot then the next), Incorrect Bios settings, and power supply (or lack of) problems.
Take out everything and start one device at a time. Keep searching! You’ll find it :)
