Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > The first time, when i rebooted one of my dimms was clearly toast.
> > memtest86 reported numerous errors starting from the first bit of it.
> > The second time, everything was fine after a power cycle. soft reboot
> > didn't help.
> >
> > I'm wondering if it might have something to do with my having the ati
> > framebuffer driver loaded, which would be great, since I don't need it
> > and won't include it in my next kernel build.
>
> No I've seen that same weird 'have to power it off completely' behaviour on
> an Athlon with AMD chipset too. In my case it was XFree 4.0.2 bugs crashing
> a 3dfx card.
>
> What happens to require power cycling, and who is scribbling into the memory
> or mashing the settings I don't know
Hmm.
Well, that's OK, I really only have the TV card in there because the FM
radio performance of it is a heck of a lot better than the ISA card I
had been using. Really shouldn't be watching TV at work anyway :)
- Eric
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