On Tuesday 19 Jul 2005 19:30, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > The only time this happened to me was when I had broken RAM. > > > > Can you afford to run memtest on the machine for a couple of days > > in order to > > rule it out. > > > > I swapped the RAM into another machine and it eventually failed > > memtest on > > the third day of testing - but I haven't had another failure since. > > (Fingers > > crossed.) > > > > Cheers, > > Ok I started running memtest, but I'm not sure exactly how to use it. > First, I tried memtest 100m --log, but that pretty much stopped the > computer from doing anything else. So, I stopped that test and put it > to 50m. But am I doing this right? Oh, by the way I think I have > somewhere around 120 Mb RAM
Hi. This is why I asked if you could "afford to" do the test. I was lucky because I had a spare machine and spare RAM: I swapped the RAM and put the "dodgy" RAM into the spare machine. I then used a Knoppix boot CD and booted into a memtest on the spare machine. This meant that while the test was happening, I was not otherwise using the machine. Sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
