I took the
suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the tech put it in a
windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they said the memory was
tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I thought it interesting that
their test was to boot it and let the bios test tell them if it was ok. That's
fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly recognized in LM7.2 on boot.
Dennis M.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:45 AM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:45 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
This is the
funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things going on, I just
can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't even seem to run any
slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as fast as ever. I am thinking
motherboard, so I will try suggested test of putting the ram in another box and
see if it causes problems there. Two of the sticks are only a couple of months
old and I should be able to exhchange them if I can determine good or
bad.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
Naa, I
can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers continuously
and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three. This 128 stick isn't
quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me left and right and
weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in X...
-----Original Message-----
From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAMI've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not a technician so I am relying on their advice.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM
To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAMI am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can
confirm this?
