On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM madscientistatlarge < [email protected]> wrote:
> If the bios sees it, an lshw sees it it's not the ram, I seriously doubt > new ram would help. I've seen a failing power supply make ram look flaky > before, possibly the drive activity during booting is loading down the > power supply enough to confuse your' system. In any case, you should run > memtest, boot into it (obviously try to install if necessary). Also, how > dusty is your' cpu? A hot cpu can do truly crazy things, like cause an > install to fail at exactly the same point 3 times in a row, seen it. Also, > don't desperately reseat the ram anymore, it's not the problem and those > connectors don't last for ever, a few dozen times can wear them out though > it should be closer to 50-100 minimum. In any case, It's very unlikely to > be the ram, the bios is seeing it, lshw is seeing it, for some reason the > os isn't. What command/program is telling you there is only 8G? Is it > system monitor, about this computer or what? > > /proc/meminfo, top, free etc. I was watching CPU temperature with watch 'sensors k10temp-pci-00c3' and it never got to the high mark. I'll try a new power supply & memtest. Thanks.
