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From: JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 18:15:32
Message-Id: 445CE5EB.5010009@keeliegirl.dyndns.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games by JimD
1 JimD wrote:
2 > Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my
3 > wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting
4 > today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I
5 > have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running
6 > 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay
7 > pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that
8 > in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and
9 > didn't see any issues.
10
11 I took out the OEM 512MB DDR2 and left in just the 1GB DDR2 and things
12 seem stable now. I was able to run abuse.sdl without any lockups.
13
14 I have never had two different memory modules give me problems before.
15
16 I would have liked to have 1.5GB, but oh well.
17
18 Jim
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23 JimD
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Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>