[gentoo-user] Re: Compile gcc reboot my laptop!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-28, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
> On 2007-03-28, Arnaud FARINE <arnaud.farine@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to compile gcc 4.1 on my gentoo 2.16-r9. During compilation my machine
>> is stopped.
>> I doesn't get error message in messages log, emerge log or dmesg...
>>
>> Strange...Could you know this problem ?
>
> It sounds like faulty memory to me.
>
> Run memtest86 for a day or two -- or at least overnight.

I've also seen problems like that caused by a bad sector in a
swap partition and a bad disk controller card/cable. Since it's
a laptop, another possibility is overheating due to faulty
fan-speed control.

IMO, there's a 95% or better chance it's a hardware problem.

RAM is the easiest to test (and the easiest to fix), so start
there.

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