Unfortunately none of my computers share the same RAM type so I'd have
to purchase some more for that. So I thought I'd give this memory
mapping a go first.
Leo
On 17/05/15 11:41, Neil Stone wrote:
Damnit hit send too soon.
Try testing ram in another system is another, and very conclusive, test.
Enjoy
On 17 May 2015 11:38, "Leo" <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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