* On Fri Mar-04-2005 at 10:09:13 PM -0500, Ryan Sims said: > My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and > I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone > could help me understand what the diagnosis is. [...] > I've been assuming that the random crashes (usually only happens in > Windows, but *sometimes* Gentoo will develop some tics) were heat > problems or buggy software; but now I'm not so sure.
If your computer just shuts off or reboots then it could be a hot processor. (Dust clogging the heat sink's fan?) Otherwise, it sounds like your memory is bad... especially if memtest reported over a page of errors. Hope you sort it out soon. -- Sami Samhuri
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