You might want to give this a try on the broken machine: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
(BadRAM: Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules) -jrh > Hiya. > > My brother's computer (with Gentoo on it) has some memory > problems quite > probably caused by the motherboard (Memtest86 shows errors > always at the end > of test 5 and changing mem chips doesn't help). This > obviously causes quite a > bit of problems while compiling stuff, but under normal load > it doesn't seem > to be a problem. > > Obviously the only long term solution is to get a new > motherboard, but in > the mean time I would like to update the system on the > current hardware. I > have two other Gentoo systems at my disposal (800MHz Duron > and 400MHz K6-2, > while the borked one is a Athlon XP 1700+ with DDR RAM) and > they're all in > the same network. > > So, any ideas on how I could sidestep the memory issue > while updating the > system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
