From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng0yF-0001zG-Hz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:14:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A45E0AAE; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2DFE0AAE for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 56686 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E51034.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.16.52]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:13:32 +0100 Received: (qmail 2156 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2010 19:20:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:20:42 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Message-ID: <20100212192042.GB1560@muc.de> References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> <201002121356.48867.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002121356.48867.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 79e4b573-7854-4415-a9b6-a64740e47d9a X-Archives-Hash: 14725cfae7f179cb4ae33aada258f603 Hi, Volker, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:56:48PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > you can try upping the voltage of the ram by 0.05V. I had a stick that > threw errors unless I gave it a bit more. After that the system was > stable and none of the memtesting apps found any errors. Tried that with the voltage everywhere from 1.5v to 1.6v in 0.02v steps. It didn't help. It turns out, one of the RAM sticks was kaputt. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).