On 27/12/12 08:19, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
Just in case anyone else is trying to diagnose faults on a machine, MEMTEST on
Ubuntu 12.10 is Broken! see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memtest86+/+bug/1071209.
My son complained that his games were running a bit sluggishly so I gave him
the latest Kubuntu 64 bit disc to run MEMTEST from. We then spent a good
chunk of Christmas day and the best part of yesterday, proving that there was
nothing wrong with his memory.
Had it not failed Test 7 so comprehensively, we'd probably have only run one
or two passes, but it took a while to find that there was a problem with the
tool, not the machine.
We think his problem was dust in the airways by the way (it's an MSI gaming
laptop).
Terry,
Sounds like the problem I had on opensuse a couple of months ago -
reassuring that it is a bug and not the memory.
George
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