Try memtest86 which is on the live CD. If the RAM is bad it will usually fail in 5 minutes and almost always within an hour.
Generally binaries won't get currupted by bad RAM (they aren't rewritten to disk), but settings files will. Windows and Linux go about RAM differently. Sometimes only one of the OSes is majorly effected, depending on where the bad spot is. That's my 2ยข AJ ONeal Sent from my Google Android On Dec 31, 2010 3:40 PM, "Russel Caldwell" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a HP Compaq 6710b laptop with Ubuntu 10 installed. A few weeks ago > the network connection just stopped working. There's a button on the top of > the keyboard that turns the Internet connection on and off when you press > it. It basically just stopped functioning. I reinstalled Ubuntu and it > started working again for a few weeks but now it's down again. When I mount > a live CD it works. Does anybody know how I can get it working again without > reinstalling? > > Thanks. > Russ Caldwell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
