On 06/05/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and didn't see any issues.
Laptops generally get warm/hot to the touch. What sort of temperatures does it show? memetest should run overnight to get a reliable result. I remember reading either in this list or in the Gentoo forums why memtest is not the best test for memory integrity. There's a script somewhere which will also put your memory controller under some pressure. I'll post back if I can find it. Momentarily getting back the display image that was cached indicates that your swap was not flushed, which is probably more related to the fact that the machine crashed rather than shut down gracefully. If as you say your video card is sharing the system memory and the memory is suspect, then that would explain why you are getting all these video display problems. Does reverting back to the old memory chip improve matters? Some laptops (and desktops for that matter) do not take kindly to mixing and matching memory chips. If your memory upgrade was not sympathetic to the laptop's idiosyncracies the problems you describe are typical. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
