On Thursday 05 October 2006 20:22, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > thanks for sharing. One question I have - did you run memtest86 or > something similar at the time? The reason I'm asking - I ran > memtest86 on this machine and it showed nothing. I'm not entirely > sure how much I can trust memtest.
I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system* as opposed to a memory module. Try to search around and look in Google too, in case you find it. There's alternative tests to memtest involving running some script (if I remember right). As I said, whichever test you run you need to make sure that it exercises your whole memory system (modules, controllers, swap). Good luck. :) PS. My box would also crash in M$Windoze if the page file was being used (e.g. manipulating large sections of text or pictures), but not at the frequency of it crashing under Gentoo with a heavy emerge and updatedb taking place. -- Regards, Mick
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