perthie wrote:
>>I ran just the failing test (#5) with scroll lock turned on (that
>>version of
>>Memtest is so old it doesn't maintain a history of errors), and sure
>>enough,
>>a few in the 247MB range, some in the 5xx MB range, and a bunch in
>>thee
>>766.x MB range. There may have been others that scrolled by so fast
>>I could
>>not stop in time. I have one each 256 MB and 512 MB DIMMs. Run
>>Memtest
>>with only one and see if it still acts up? Burn Memtest onto a
>>CD-RW? Get
>>BadRAM and attempt to patch my kernel? What are the odds that it's
>>not the
>>RAM at all, but some component on the motherboard?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Anything is possible, but I'd suspect ram first.
>
>
>
>>I was going to order two more 512 MB DIMMs anyhow (motherboard
>>doesn't
>>support 1 GB DIMMs and last I checked they were more than twice the
>>price of
>>512 MB DIMMs anyhow). Should I run Memtest with those PLUS one of
>>the
>>existing DIMMs and treat any passing DIMMs as a bonus?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Test each dimm individually and in different slots. This will help rule
>out a problem with a particular slot as well as a particular dimm.
>
>
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RAM is the easiest and cheapest thing to test, however I have seen a
memory controller (loves on the north bridge with the exception of the
AMD64) cause problems like that. Swapping boards is a royal PITA, so
yes, test the ram with a current version of memtest to make sure. Like
other have said, test each DIMM individually, and try memory that has
never seen that box.
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