On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:11, Ernie Schroder wrote:
>       Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't 
> having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just 
> for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default 
> tests) and I rebooted then did "startx". The nVidia splash screen 
> stayed up for about one minute, then KDE started. This took somewhat 
> longer than normal but I had no mouse. I exited X and looked at my 
> XF86Config... No changes. I tried to reboot with the same results as 
> before. Then, I shut it down and let it sit for 15 minutes. I fired it 
> up and started X and all was back to normal.
>       What happened? Do you suppose that the memory or processor got too hot? 
> I have no means of checking temps in bios. (no emerges or config 
> changes since last reboot)

Try pulling and reseating the ram cards.  Sometimes, you could have a
bad/intermittent connection between the card and the socket.

Run the test again.

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