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From: Ryan Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 January 2006 23:24
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question
My bios will let me change the FSB frequency (100, 133, 166 and
200MHz), and then sets the ram by that number
I just bought a 512M stick of Crucial ram to complement another 512M
stick...suddenly I'm getting tons of crashes, reboots, failed
compiles, etc. I removed the new stick, and all is well, now I'm
trying just the new stick alone, see if perhaps it was the both
together...
Something odd I've
memtest86+ ( http://www.memtest.org/ ) works well for detecting bad RAM,
and comes standard on the x86 Gentoo install CD, I believe.
Ryan Sims wrote:
only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm
already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if
anyone could
On Saturday 14 January 2006 17:27, Ryan Sims wrote:
I just bought a 512M stick of Crucial ram to complement another 512M
stick...suddenly I'm getting tons of crashes, reboots, failed
compiles, etc. I removed the new stick, and all is well, now I'm
trying just the new stick alone, see if
On 1/14/06, Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you got the Crucial stick from them, not second hand, it's very unlikely
it's bad- they test them at the factory- I've never gotten a bad stick from
them in many years of building computers. Does the Crucial stick by itself
cause the
I read and noticed that you said both sticks are PC-3200. I have
another question: are you mixing registered and unbuffered memory
(registered memory has an extra chip in the middle)? If so, it's
possible that this could be a problem (I had a problem that actually
turned out to be a bad BIOS
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