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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
