From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6bnn-0004QS-4q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:36:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l660X4hI022636; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:33:04 GMT Received: from bach.pcorp.com.au (mail.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l660Oh47012211 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:24:44 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by bach.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E7417DC1; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:54:41 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pcorp.com.au Received: from bach.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EXz8ksM9fC5j; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:54:36 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (orpheus.pcorp.com.au [172.16.0.52]) by bach.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B5517DAA for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:54:36 +0930 (CST) Subject: [gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:55:00 +0930 Message-Id: <1183681500.6798.36.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9e43d5d3-7e31-476f-87d1-45fdd77fec27 X-Archives-Hash: fba5fcbc04535af7784e41e29cf6916b 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, -- Iain Buchanan Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) -- Phil Hands -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list