Unlock a compac 7550

[John Heinen]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:01 -0700, John Heinen wrote:
>   
>> CRC error system halted
>>     
>
> CRC is a "Cyclical Redundancy Check", sort of an error checking service,
> like ECC... and typically means that there's issues either with your
> hard drive, or RAM... though there appears to be other possible causes,
> including a bad CD burn, and failing CD drive.
>
> Try following the directions here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
> to verify that the image wasnt corrupted, then verify that the CD burn
> went well. 
>
> If everything checks out there, then try running a memtest (use the
> 'test system memory' option from the liveCD menu) and see if it returns
> errors... If it does, then that means your RAM is flaking out, and
> you'll need new RAM.
>
> If memtest doesn't return any errors, go to the manufacturer website of
> your hard drive, download their os-independent drive-checking tool, and
> boot with it, and run a check of your drive. 
>
> best of luck!
>
> For more info:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/304665
> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/218870-31-sigh-quot-error-system-halted-quot
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140596
>
>   
Hi Andrew, I did peruse the above alas, most of it is way over my head,
To isolate the problem some, the CRC error appears only when I try to
load a LINUX program such as ubuntu, kubuntu, it runs fine on windows xp
The computer, A Compac 7550 Wind Ep 2002, AMD sempron processor 1.79 ghz
224 mb of ram. 224 mb not enough? John