Subject: Re: Hard Crashes Increasing, FC3

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Mar 25 01:58:46 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:43, Jess Anderson wrote:
> To follow myself up:
> 
> >Today I woke up to a frozen machine and rebooted at 05:50.
> >At 06:30 it crashed again, same symptoms as before; rebooted.
> >At 07:40 again the same.
> >[trace omitted]
> 
> An email responder who had a similar problem resolved it by
> reseating DIMMs; he suggested running memtest86. Although I had
> done so before the install and got no errors, I did it again --
> lo and behold, a problem.
> 
> I have three slots and three 512MB DIMMs. What I did was run
> memtest three times, rotating the DIMMs (call 'em ABC) by one
> slot each time:

Why not pull one DIMM at a time an run memtest86?  If you get a clean
pass then those two chips are good.  

-- 
Scot L. Harris
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