> From:: Eugene Rosenzweig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:03:01 +1000
> Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > > >After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I > >have to buy new memory? > > > >2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] al.de>: > > > > > >>On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi Richard, > >>> > >>> First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition > >>>with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any > >>>way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during > >>>start up. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. > >> > >>gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the > >>bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! > >> > >>The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have > options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and > see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned > re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again. > > Eugene. I remember an application which would identify the bad memory cells and isolate them so that your machine could happily carry on using the rest of the memory - unfortunately just like yours my memory is not what it used to be . . . ;-) I've googled but can't find it. -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
