On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:06 +0100, Mikkel Poulsen wrote: > Hi > > Few days ago I thought it was time to change my old cheap DDR RAM, to > something better - Kingston ValueRAM. But since then it have lead me > to instability issues. My computers begin to freeze suddenly, and my > screen behaves weird (like hsync and vsync is not right. > This doesn't make any sence to me since my old RAM had 100's of errors > while my new Kingston ValueRAM have zero of errors (according to > memtest). > > Could my RAM be damaged or something?
Depends on many factors. Usually Kingston ValueRAM works fine on all boards, but some boards can have compatibility issues. A long while ago I had systems based on SiS746FX and SiS748 chipsets. After stuffing 3 sticks of RAM in it, programs started to segfault at random, compiles aborted, etc. My boards couldn't handle 3 sticks of doublesided RAM. Memtest didn't fail, because that program doesn't stress the memory as much as a kernel or KDE/Qt compile would do. What specs does your system have? _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
