Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > >> Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably >> new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop. > > aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's faulty? > or was fitted with a tiny bit of dust on one of the pins? you never > know... If it fails on the big compiles like gcc, kernel, etc., then I > would bet it's the RAM...
Yeah, memory was upgraded "recently", but that was prior to the last time i upgraded - say maybe 4 or 5 months ago. So my point was that the memory was reasonably new. Take care, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
