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On 06/05/06, JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay |
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> pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that |
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> in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and |
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> didn't see any issues. |
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Laptops generally get warm/hot to the touch. What sort of |
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temperatures does it show? |
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memetest should run overnight to get a reliable result. I remember |
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reading either in this list or in the Gentoo forums why memtest is not |
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the best test for memory integrity. There's a script somewhere which |
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will also put your memory controller under some pressure. I'll post |
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back if I can find it. |
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Momentarily getting back the display image that was cached indicates |
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that your swap was not flushed, which is probably more related to the |
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fact that the machine crashed rather than shut down gracefully. |
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If as you say your video card is sharing the system memory and the |
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memory is suspect, then that would explain why you are getting all |
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these video display problems. Does reverting back to the old memory |
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chip improve matters? |
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Some laptops (and desktops for that matter) do not take kindly to |
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mixing and matching memory chips. If your memory upgrade was not |
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sympathetic to the laptop's idiosyncracies the problems you describe |
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are typical. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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