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From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Incipient hardware failure?
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:46:38
Message-Id: 42CB993E.1090402@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Incipient hardware failure? by Kyle Liddell
1 Kyle Liddell wrote:
2
3 >Here's just an idea: You took out half your RAM, and then more recently
4 >you tested the other half of the RAM that you left in the computer? How
5 >about you swap the RAM around and run memtest86+ or some such. Perhaps
6 >some of the RAM you took out of your system is bad, and you've got a
7 >corrupted file or something lying around? I had this happen on my old
8 >server...had very occasional weird errors, but worked enough to compile
9 >a stage1 install, then when the RAM completely died and things went nuts
10 >I checked it with memtest86 and found that a stick was bad, dumped it,
11 >but still had strange crashes every once in a while. Completely
12 >reinstalling (switching to debian actually) stopped the problems.
13 >
14
15 Interesting idea, that. The other day in my clumsiness I managed to
16 knock the spare sticks onto the tiled floor, so now I can't trust them
17 not to have PCB cracks. Secondly, I'm still getting segmentation faults
18 and that one bus error I mentioned, and in the meantime I've zapped the
19 root partition of my Xfce system and rebuilt it from scratch. So on
20 balance I think I won't pursue your suggestion, thanks all the same. I
21 did enjoy reading about your experience though.
22
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24 Rgds
25 Peter Humphrey
26 Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93.
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