For myself it was a Compaq Alpha server. I popped it open, cleaned it, reseated all the cards and it worked.

This had apparently been annoying the techs at school for quite some time but they had never bothered to clean it or reseat the cards. If anyone wanted to know, it would boot into any OS for about 5 minutes then crash.

Works beautifully now on Linux. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />