On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote: > On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one > > chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit > > too (don't know if that's posisble ). > > If the ram is damaged if can cause lots of random problems. I've found > that it's always worth running memtest on any new PC to check that the > ram is okay. Do you have a live CD handy? There's an option in the > menu to allow you to run memtest - I'd advise letting it run overnight > to see if it comes up with any errors.
> I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times with no > errors, but it wasn't on a live cd, it was from the grub boot menu - would > that make any difference? I can't test the broken ram because the motherboard > won't even boot - luckily Aria have already authorised the RMA-ing of the ram > though. That's the same memtest. I'd forgotten it was on the grub boot menu as well - I don't dual boot so don't get to see it very often! If the ram currently in the PC passed when you ran memtest before then it should be fine. Can you post some of the errors from the syslog somewhere for us to look at? -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
