On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:28, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: > <Snippit Snip> > > > Terry > > > > First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is > > good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are > > gold. > > Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). > > Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. > > Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,, minivac creates a ton of static, enough to screw memory chips as they sit.
> > Re-seat the ram and > > check again. Try it in a different slot. > > Moved to center slot after cleaning, went through 5 runs w/o error. > Next opposite end slot. Bombed with 429 errors in test 6. Checked > seating and rerun test and it locked up at the beginning of test 7. > Back to original slot where it all began ;>, bombed on test 6 with > errors in the 5 figures. > > <Snip Snip> > > > Boot to memtest86, and as soon as it's running, press the <c> > > key for configuration. From memory, I believe you want to then > > select 6, then 2, then 8. > > I got plently of messages on the screen. > > > Check the docs, but this should restart > > the test, log and report bad memory areas. Then you can add those > > statements to lilo or grub to let the kernel know not to use them. > > How I might save them to a file is not clear to me. > > > > All of this works only if you are running one of the latest > > Mandrake kernels with the 'badmem' patch. AFAIK, that means, > > 2.4.22-7mdk or newer. I know for sure the tmb kernels have this > > patch, eg, 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk > > For now that is something I'll have to wait on. > > > > I'd just replace the ram, and offer the old stuff to somebody I > > didn't like ;) You can always depend on Crucial for quality ram. > > http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM > > Corsair is good too, > > http://www.corsairmicro.com/ > > > > A good measure is to buy better ram than you need. EG, if pc100 > > is required, buy pc133. Ditto, pc2700 is required, get pc3200. > > Those are just consumer labels tho. Important ratings are ns > > (nanosecond) and Cas rating. The lower the better. > > Thanks, > > Terry -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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