What happens if you swap the ram slots (assume you have more than one ram stick) ? On 17 May 2015 12:02, "Leo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> -- >> Please post to: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire >> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> > -- > 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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