On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: <Snip Snip 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. Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Re-seat the ram and > check again. Try it in a different slot. If you have more than one > stick, change the order you install them, ie, swap slots around. > Still errors?.... then,
I'll try this tonight. > > I've come to believe memtest86 is a very lenient ram check. So > if it found errors, the ram is surely bad, and probly will get > worse. Best to replace it. In answer to your question tho. Install > the Mandrake memtest86 rpm on your CD's (you never needed to get it > from their website). The rpm will install memtest86 and make it a > boot option in lilo and grub. > > 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. 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. > 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 Sounds like mdk 9.2. > > 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. I recently > failed to follow my own advice, and now I'm stuck with some under > performing (no bad areas tho) Kingston junk till I get around to > replacin it. I bought my system from Tiger direct over a year ago. Come to think of it the ram might be Kingston. ooops. :( Thanks, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.5 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 256MB AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 ------------------------------Just a Newbieo-----------------------------
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