On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote:
> > I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the
> tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they
> said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I
> thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios test
> tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly
> recognized in LM7.2 on boot. Dennis M.
First off I'm glad you have your memory problem solved and I'll bet it was an
incompatibility, however if any of the Tech's that work for me ever used the
method you just described to troubleshoot a memory problem they would be
in the unemployment line... In my shop we have an SP3000 for testing Simms
and Dimms and as a standard practice if they test good we exchange the
memory with another brand and always make sure we are matching the same
speed..
My advice find a better shop with professional Tech's.
Scott Faulkner
> This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things
> going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't
> even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as
> fast as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of
> putting the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of
> the sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to
> exhchange them if I can determine good or bad.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
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> Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers
> continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three. This
> 128 stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me
> left and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in
> X...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
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> I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at
> bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen
> that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to
> get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not
> a technician so I am relying on their advice.
>
> BM__MailData-----Original Message-----
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> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM
> To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
> Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
>
> I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can
> confirm this?
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