On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tried that. Last night memtest got through the first 4 tests. When test 5 came the screen got all garbaled, though the test kept running. I let the laptop cool overnight and this morning ran just test #5 and it completed. I then booted to Gnome and the screen got garbaled.
Memtest86 is nearly useless on modern x86 platforms. It can only tell you if specific cells of the memory are faulty, not if there are timing or DMA issues. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
