et wrote:

 > <snip> I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that
 > window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of course,
 >
 >>but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware problem, IMHO.
 >>
 > <end snipped section>
 > wrong thinking (IMHO) windows only uses ram it needs and will have 
lots of
 > "wasted" ram, linux considers available ram not used for system or 
program
 > better used as cache for disk than left sit, this causes some 
"marginal" ram
 > (that sometimes only shows up as .dll errors) to cause problems in Linux
 >

Yep, but I kind of tried to account for that. I opened programs that
would stress the memory subsystem as hard as possible (Quake3,
Photoshop) and I made sure I ran out of physical memory. Still, I can't
rule out a hardware problem completely of course; I just think it's
unlikely.


Wooky


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