"Martin Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all. > > Probably not related but... > I just bought an AMD Athlon 1.6gig with 512Mb of ram (2x256). > Tried my first Debian install which kept crashing. Tried Mandrake 8.1 which > also crashed (but told me sig 11). It turns out that if I have simm A in > slot 1 and simm B in slot 2 it crashes. But works fine with either simm B in > slot 1 and simm A in slot 2, OR either simm in slot 1 and the other on the > table (in view of computer but not touching distance...). > > Simms are same brand, type etc...
Probably a dodgy simm, then. If you've got it in a higher slot (so it's say providing 256->512MB, then it's not going to be taxed by an installer. if you run a mem test program which checks the entire 512MB, you'll probably find you're getting errors. so i'd advise if a more detailed stress test turns up similar findings, you return it, if you can, or chalk it up to bad luck. :) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
