To conclude, took computer to repair store so they could have a look (got way more parts than I ever will). The result was that while the computer could handle 2x8s from bios boot up the reality was that it could only handle 4x4s
On 18.02.2016 21:38, Peter Simmonds wrote: > And before I forget, Isopropyl alcohol is good for cleaning contacts > (both gold fingers on the memory and slot contacts). Meths in my > experience is usually alright too. -P > > On 18/02/2016 11:38, Kent Fredric wrote: > >> On 18 February 2016 at 10:38, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users [1] Links: ------ [1] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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