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Peter Davoust, mused, then expounded: |
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> Now if you call that being silly, then that's your |
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> choice, but it's my choice if I want to be cautious, even overly so. |
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Computers are routinely tested at the design stage to run full load |
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from a temperature range of 0F to 120F. If you're concerned about heat, |
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insure there is at least 1" of air space between the bottom of the |
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case and the surface it's on - prop it up. It'll be fine. |
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> On that note, I did buck up and run memtest86+ from a Ubuntu livecd, |
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> and after several loops (about 1h 30 min of straight testing) I didn't |
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> get a single error. It was on Test #6 when I stopped, so I think the |
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> memory's chill. |
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Memtest will only find bit errors. It's not able to test much other |
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than that. It's pretty poor at finding memory problems that exist at |
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the bonderies of the dimm. The easist way to do that is, if it's |
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possible on your laptop, is to swap the dimms. If the problem moves |
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or occurs much, much sooner, then it's a dimm issue. If it doesn't |
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change, then run only one dimm at a time and try again. That would |
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eliminate the memory as the cause of the problem. |
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> Besides, as I said before, when I run anything GUI |
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> (enlightement, right now), it's fine. I just have to jump in and out |
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> of terminal really quickly. The fact that it likes to crash after |
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> starting x server twice makes me think I might have a few damaged |
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> portions on my harddrive. Does that sound about right? Of course, that |
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> sounds like it could be a kernel issue too. If I can figure out how to |
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> "downgrade" my kernel, maybe that will solve it. |
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No it sounds like a flakey Gfx driver. Try running a later or earlier |
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driver, if it's an nvidia or ati. If it's not then you'll need to try |
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a different version of Xorg. |
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And if it is a third party driver, try running just the 2D Xorg variant |
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and see if the issue still occurs. |
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Also, it would help us a bit if the specs of your laptop - chipset, etc. |
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were given. |
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And FWIW - our corp spam filter thinks your email may be spam. So there |
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still seems to be a formatting issue. |
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Thanks, |
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Bob |
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