On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JimD wrote:
> Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my
> wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting
> today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I
> have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running
> 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay
> pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that
> in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and
> didn't see any issues.
I took out the OEM 512MB DDR2 and left in just the 1GB DDR2 and things
seem stable now. I was able to run abuse.sdl without any lockups.
I have never had two different memory modules give me problems before.
I would have liked to have 1.5GB, but oh well.
One possibility may have to do with the memory timings of the old vs
new memory. If the BIOS gives any manual control over the CAS, RAS,
etc timings, you might try increasing them. I had to do this with my
AMD64 desktop system, even though the memory modules were matched.
They just would not run stable at the rated settings...
HTH,
-Richard
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