Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:43:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. > > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no > > surprise at all. > > Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" tra

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > Hi, Dale, > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > >>> The shop who sold me the components

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with just one RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Dale, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > > >just one RAM stick at a time

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > >just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's > >just fine. (It

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-12 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote: Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only as strong as its we

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe > not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only > as strong as its weakest link. It could be that whatever is going > wrong could be rig

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:43:46AM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:43:46AM -0600, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > >On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions > >>of failures in b11 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 14:43:30 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > failures in b11 of 32 bit words. > > > > I'll try unplugging and replugging these. > > No help. :-( > > No matter how I plug in the RAM (4 combinations of 2 sticks into 2 pairs > of slots) it is always b11 which fails and always at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo,

[gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Gentoo, > > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > > > The first sign was when the