Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/27/2015 03:28 PM, walt wrote: My question is why didn't memtest86+ find any errors? Could it be that the first RAM I bought was actually okay but this machine didn't like it for some reason? Both were DDR3/1333MHz, just from different manufacturers. If the timing/voltage is set wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:28:11 -0800 walt wrote: Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.01.2015 um 00:28 schrieb walt: Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found zero memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 Jan 2015 22:13:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 28.01.2015 um 00:28 schrieb walt: Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/01/2015 01:28, walt wrote: Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found zero memory

[gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-28 Thread walt
Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found zero memory errors. Today I exchanged the new RAM