On Donnerstag, 8. März 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 070306 Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote: > >> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes > >> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. > >> The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. > > > > The only time I had suffered similar symptoms (but different > > applications) was when I had a bad memory problem. Memtest86 did not > > show anything and it was only through trial and error that I found the > > faulty module. > > I emerged Memtest86 & ran it -- it takes 1 hr for my 1 GB memory -- , > but I can't find anything to explain the output. It found 2 errors : > > ... 0000c6e37c0 198.1MB ... > ... 0000d6e37a0 214.1MB ... > > I realise that these lines refer to hex locations, but I don't understand > the reference to 'MB' (perhaps they're the same info in a different form). > I have a note that :
yes it is the same info. MB = Megabyte. It says, that the errors are at 198,1 and 214,1MB. The problem: memtest86 and memtest86+ both find sometimes errors that aren't ones. Or don't find them, when there are some. Let it run several times to make sure - and then replace the stick. > > To tell kernel not to use bad patch of memory, append via Lilo : > 'badram=<m>,<n>', where m n are obtained via 'memtest'. > > However, the above lines don't give pairs of addresses, only 1 each. > > Yes, I did look at the official site & the installed README. > Does anyone have further advice ? yes, get new ram. Everything else is not safe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
