Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update
JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on vacation and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and didn't see any issues. I took out the OEM 512MB DDR2 and left in just the 1GB DDR2 and things seem stable now. I was able to run abuse.sdl without any lockups. I have never had two different memory modules give me problems before. I would have liked to have 1.5GB, but oh well. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on vacation and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and didn't see any issues. I took out the OEM 512MB DDR2 and left in just the 1GB DDR2 and things seem stable now. I was able to run abuse.sdl without any lockups. I have never had two different memory modules give me problems before. I would have liked to have 1.5GB, but oh well. One possibility may have to do with the memory timings of the old vs new memory. If the BIOS gives any manual control over the CAS, RAS, etc timings, you might try increasing them. I had to do this with my AMD64 desktop system, even though the memory modules were matched. They just would not run stable at the rated settings... HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update
Richard Fish wrote: One possibility may have to do with the memory timings of the old vs new memory. If the BIOS gives any manual control over the CAS, RAS, etc timings, you might try increasing them. I had to do this with my AMD64 desktop system, even though the memory modules were matched. They just would not run stable at the rated settings... Toshiba replaced the real BIOS with their own crappy BIOS. The options are very limited to enable/disable NIC, screen brightness, etc. Nothing that would confuse your typical Winders user. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
