On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:42:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> A couple. Either RAM or hard disk would be my first suspect. You can check 
> the RAM best by compiling any large package, such as gcc itself. Memtest 
> and its like can only find the most obvious faults and in my opinion aren't 
> worth their salt - if they can find a fault, it will already be obvious to 
> you.

FWIW, their value is in finding that the fault is with RAM, not with
anything else.  Compiling isn't going to narrow down the problem beyond
"yep, the computer's broken" :)

That said, that this happens when the system is quiet suggests it's not
the HD.

Dustin
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