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On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM madscientistatlarge < |
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madscientistatlarge@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> If the bios sees it, an lshw sees it it's not the ram, I seriously doubt |
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> new ram would help. I've seen a failing power supply make ram look flaky |
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> before, possibly the drive activity during booting is loading down the |
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> power supply enough to confuse your' system. In any case, you should run |
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> memtest, boot into it (obviously try to install if necessary). Also, how |
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> dusty is your' cpu? A hot cpu can do truly crazy things, like cause an |
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> install to fail at exactly the same point 3 times in a row, seen it. Also, |
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> don't desperately reseat the ram anymore, it's not the problem and those |
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> connectors don't last for ever, a few dozen times can wear them out though |
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> it should be closer to 50-100 minimum. In any case, It's very unlikely to |
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> be the ram, the bios is seeing it, lshw is seeing it, for some reason the |
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> os isn't. What command/program is telling you there is only 8G? Is it |
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> system monitor, about this computer or what? |
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> /proc/meminfo, top, free etc. |
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I was watching CPU temperature with watch 'sensors k10temp-pci-00c3' and it |
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never got to the high mark. |
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I'll try a new power supply & memtest. Thanks. |
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