On Thu, 6 May 2010, Atom Smasher wrote:
i suspect i've got bad RAM but memtest has run through several dozen
iterations without a problem. my (3 year old) laptop will run for a
few days or weeks and then crash/freeze/hang. i've enabled crash dumps
and i'm wondering if/how the dump might be able to (dis)prove that the
RAM is bad. any ideas?
thanks...
Do not discount other hardware problems: video cards, bad capacitors
and power supplies. Sadly, I mention these as a subset of my
experience. :( I have even had a faulty left mouse button that would
lock my X server (many years ago). While holding the button down
(scrolling through a menu), the mouse would release and acquire too
quickly for the server.
Unfortunately, it is harder to find the problem in a laptop where you
cannot easily (if at all) switch out pieces of hardware to find the
problem.
Have you investigated whether or not the laptop is overheating?
Sean
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