<quote who="Ken Foskey"> > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did do that. Rather than reporting any errors when I left it running > > overnight, the machine was locked up when I checked it in the morning. > > >From my observation of the speed of the tests, and the percentage > > complete, I'd guess that it ran for 4 - 6 hours. I believe memtest86 > > reports memory errors rather than crashes the machine when it sees one! > > If you machine locked up with memtest then you have a hardware failure. > Start unplugging things and see if you can remove the error. Hardware > errors are ugly when they are intermittent so good luck. >
I saw a few lockups in memtest86 when I first bought this machine. It turned out to be a below par power supply, which I replaced. After that the machine is great. Next, I overclocked the RAM, raising my throughput from around 500MB/s to 700MB/s.. unfortunately, a couple of the memory locations don't quite work at that speed! Luckily, linux supports the 'badram' parameter to the kernel... so I added 'badram=0x0ac14e3c,0xfffffffc' to my /etc/lilo.conf boot parameters and it's all good, and fast! :) HTH Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: "No TV and No Beer make Homer something something" Marge: "Go Crazy?" Homer: "Don't mind if I do! aaaarrrarrgghar!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
