Am Montag, 3. November 2003 09:00 schrieb Matt: > Bruce Sass wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote: > >>hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a > >>reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the > >>shop-vac and cleaned it out and it started to boot...here's where the > >>troubble began... > >> > >>"Unable to andle kernel paging request at virtual address >>blabla hex<< > > > >I've seen this message (or something very similar) when I had a bad > >stick of RAM... did you replace your RAM or just vacuum the dust off? > > this did cross my mind...there is one stick that i've had problems with > on and off since i bought it in 1999. i cleaned it and put it back in. > i thought it may have been a problem with fsck b/c i thought seg faults > happened when a program tried to access memory "owned" by another user. > i'll run fsck with only one stick in there at a time and hopefuly it > will work.
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