Are you able to try replacing the ram and see how it behaves? On 17 May 2015 11:38, "Leo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 14/05/15 09:40, Gordon Scott wrote: > >> I'd go along with that. >> >> The ones that normally go are the electrolytic types .. aluminium cans >> with black(usually) printing. The electrolyte is a liquid and tends to >> dry out over a number of years use in a warm environment. Swelling, >> (usually of the flat top), discolouration, oozing electrolyte. >> >> The next most likely candidates are tantalum capacitors, which tend to >> be little black rectangular block. When they fail, they tend to blow a >> corner off of the moulding, or sometimes just a small hole/crater. >> >> Most of the rest will be ceramics, which are usually trouble-free. >> >> Gordon. >> > > So I've had a look at the capacitors, and I can't see any that look > broken. I've also done some more investigation and found the following: if > the computer locks up and I then run memtest on reboot it finds errors in > the same memory locations each time. However if I reboot cleanly it doesn't > find errors. The fact it finds them in the same locations would indicate to > me that it's a memory problem. However, I also ran the mprime torture test, > and that failed on both the memory intensive test, and the test that > doesn't use much memory. Which would tend to indicate that it's not a > memory problem. > > I'm now trying a kernel parameter that should stop it using the "bad" > memory to see if that fixes it... > > Leo > > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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