On 18 February 2016 at 10:38, Volker Kuhlmann <list0...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > Awkward!! Don't borrow RAM, only swap around what you have. Memory > faults can be awkward to find, especially when they're sporadic.
It was more a question of a fast fault find. In the event that the problem was *not* your specific dimms messing you up and it was some problem with the motherboard not working under certain load patterns with that exact amount of memory, or your OS drawing a certain voltage with that many dimms installed that caused problems due to a bad powersupply... the idea was _if_ you could replicate the situation identically with an entirely different set of ram, then you know the problem is not the ram. Similarly, if you can replicate the problem with a different powersupply, its not the power supply. ( And you'd be amazed how many weird problems can appear from weak powersupplies ) I'd also consider ripping out the hard drive and booting it in an entirely different machine just to see if windows fails at the same points in the same ways or not. And it could very well be that its not "windows", just some way windows utilizes hardware makes the problem appear faster than it does with Linux. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
