Vaughn Treude wrote:

>On Tuesday 30 March 2004 22:27, you wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Vaughn Treude wrote:
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>>>Thanks for the help so far.  As soon as I figure out something that works
>>>I'll definitely share it with the group.
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>>I wonder if it's a faulty motherboard or CPU or RAM.  Did you try
>>testing the memory?  memtest86 is pretty good for that.  You might try
>>letting it run overnight, because sometimes intermittent errors are
>>tough to smoke out.
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>I finally got time to try your suggestion and run memtest86.  (I _thought_ 
>I'd already done that a year ago, but I realized that was on a different 
>box.)  Well, it ran for about an hour and then crashed with an unexpected 
>interrupt.   I searched for that problem on Google, and it seems that's a 
>pretty solid indication of a hardware problem, so I'm going to try swapping 
>out the RAM and see if that fixes it.  It still seems strange, though, that I 
>don't have that problem on Mandrake 8.  Could it be that Mandrake 8 is 
>configured incorrectly, to not see all the memory that's actually there?  
>Someone also mentioned that it could be a heat problem, but that seems highly 
>unlikely to be a distro-dependent condition.
>
>Vaughn
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I'm glad you posted an update. After running memtest86 I also suspect I 
have bad memory. What happens with me is sometimes My screen sticks I 
sounds like my computer is still working and perhaps it would fix it (I 
suspect the 2.6 kernel would be better at this) but I can never wait 
long enough. Much more common is that my X session gets restarted. and I 
just have to login again. (just about everything I use is backed up / 
able to recover so its mostly just a pita).


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