[gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

[Iain Buchanan <iain@pcorp.com.au>]

Hi all, slightly OT I know, but the usual excuses apply :)

I'm running memtest from a live-cd on a P4 3GHz HT desktop, with two
sticks of corsair VS512MB on an ASUS P4P800-X.

It always freezes at the start of "test 3".  The cursor keeps flashing,
and there is no display corruption, but I can't do anything but press
the reset button.

I've swapped the sticks around, used either by themselves, tried
different slots, - everything except completely different RAM.

I've never seen this behaviour with memtest before, actually, I've never
had it fail, so I don't know how it fails.  It seems a bit strange that
it fails the same way regardless of what I do - could it possibly be a
hardware/memtest incompatibility, and not actually a faulty memory
problem?

(Ultimately, I'm trying to diagnose a random reboot problem, which makes
me suspicious of the memory, but I'm not sure)

thanks heaps for the advice,
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Iain Buchanan <iain at pcorp dot com dot au>

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