On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:55, Pupeno wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:24, Steven Elling wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:09, Pupeno wrote: > > > I'm having total and random freezes... The mouse pointer disappear, > > > the keyboard doesn't do anything (not even pressing Caps Lock turns > > > the light on or off), can anybody give me any clue of where can I > > > start looking for the problem ? > > > Thank you. > > > > I assume you are using X (Gnome / KDE / etc.). My system used to > > kernel panic then halt and while in X I would not see that the system > > did. I only noticed the kernel panic and halt while working at the > > console one day. After I saw it, I ran memtest86 and found I had some > > bad memory. Boot off the LiveCD and run memtest86 (it is a boot > > option). > > I suspect it is the RAM... I run memtest86 for about 4 hours without > finding any problem and I had to use the computer... do you think there > are big chances of memory problems not appearing in the first tests and > appearing in the latter one with memtest86 ? > Thank you.
The "standard" tests will not catch all memory errors, as I found out on another system a while back. If you did not run memtest86 using all tests, run memtest86 through at least one pass of all tests. IMHO, running memtest86 through at least one test should be enough to prove the memory is good or bad. Also, before you stop memtest86, watch it for a bit to make sure it is doing screen updates. My system halted a couple of times during memory testing but it did not indicate it halted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
