On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:50, James Sparenberg wrote: > Alex, > > Had a box myself that started doing this a couple of months ago. > Turned out I had a bad block (sector? Transistor? not sure of the term) > appear in my memory but it was high up in the list. > <snip>
Yep, turns out to be bad memory. Having said that the error address was quite high (single bit stuck, around 110M mark). It seems odd that just one (high) bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the results are consistent in failing. I had a go at building the badmem tools and kernel patch but to no avail. Has anybody got experience with the badmem patches on Mandrake? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer
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