Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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> Hi, Dale,
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote:
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>> Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe
>> not as sensitive as the others.  It's sort of like a chain.  It's only
>> as strong as its weakest link.  It could be that whatever is going
>> wrong could be right on the edge of others not working either.  The
>> one that is failing is just the first if it is a power problem.
>> That's where the power problem thought comes from.  Have you had a
>> look here for well tested power supplies?
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>> That said, it could be a lot of things.  It could be a bad chip on the
>> mobo, a piece of dust in the wrong place or any number of other things.
>> It's finding it that is so much fun.
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> The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with
> just one RAM stick at a time.  It turns out, one was duff, the other's
> just fine.  (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.)  So
> it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement for
> the broken one.
>
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>> Again, lots of things it could be.  So far, everybody has replied with
>> good ideas to check.  There are lots of them.
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> Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down!
>
>    
>> Dale
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>> :-)  :-)
>>      

There you go.  Most likely one little transistor that went belly up.  
Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no 
surprise at all.

Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other 
options.  Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will 
make it a cheap fix as well.

Dale

:-)  :-)