On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:45 +0100, Lucy wrote: > On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote: > > On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one > > > chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a > > > bit too (don't know if that's posisble ). > > > > If the ram is damaged if can cause lots of random problems. I've found > > that it's always worth running memtest on any new PC to check that the > > ram is okay. Do you have a live CD handy? There's an option in the > > menu to allow you to run memtest - I'd advise letting it run overnight > > to see if it comes up with any errors. > > > I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times with > > no errors, but it wasn't on a live cd, it was from the grub boot menu - > > would that make any difference? I can't test the broken ram because the > > motherboard won't even boot - luckily Aria have already authorised the > > RMA-ing of the ram though. > > That's the same memtest. I'd forgotten it was on the grub boot menu as > well - I don't dual boot so don't get to see it very often! > > If the ram currently in the PC passed when you ran memtest before then > it should be fine. > > Can you post some of the errors from the syslog somewhere for us to look at? >
yup... just about to boot my pc on the net, so I'll be back in about 20 minutes :P =============================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P
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