On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:53 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Thought maybe I'd see if my memory (in the machine, I know /mine/ is > shot) > was getting finicky. And the uptimes on this D525MW board haven't been > that great recently, but I reboot and choose memtest86 from the grub > menu, and it advises the mem is wrong, and reverts to the grub menu in > about 5 seconds. > > Run synaptic, see there is a slightly newer version available under a > slightly different name, but installed, it obviously needs someone 100% > familiar with the map available just to run it. > > The msg at the top of the screen is wrong address, 0x99100, 0x8F000 > > And it reverts to the grub menu in about 5 seconds. > Memtest boots and runs as the only program on the system; 'revert to grub' is probably memtest crashing and rebooting the system. I have never seen it behaving this way: even with bad memory I have only seen it report errors while still running. This may be actually good news: it's possible that your memory is so bad that even the tiny region from which memtest runs is hopelessly corrupt. Did you try re-seating the DIMMs? If that doesn't help, get new ones and swap them out. It's possible that the memory controller went bad, too.. What was the history of the system---it worked fine and started miisbehaving recently without anything else contributing (like brownouts/lightning/fat-fingered nephews/BIOS battery dying and scrambling the memory controller settings) _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
