On Monday 27 May 2002 08:29 pm, you wrote: > et wrote: > > <snip> I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that > > window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of course, > > > >>but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware problem, IMHO. > > > > <end snipped section> > > wrong thinking (IMHO) windows only uses ram it needs and will have > > lots of > > > "wasted" ram, linux considers available ram not used for system or > > program > > > better used as cache for disk than left sit, this causes some > > "marginal" ram > > > (that sometimes only shows up as .dll errors) to cause problems in Linux > > Yep, but I kind of tried to account for that. I opened programs that > would stress the memory subsystem as hard as possible (Quake3, > Photoshop) and I made sure I ran out of physical memory. Still, I can't > rule out a hardware problem completely of course; I just think it's > unlikely. > > > Wooky as easy as it is to run memtest (it is on the cds, you need to make a bootable floppy, but this program will test your memory better than any other I know of,,, or search for memtestx86. at least you will be sure.... just let it run all the sests (takes a while)
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