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 1Ng1kI-0001XJ-JR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:04:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B458FE0C18; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9478FE0B09 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE761B416E for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.067 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.067 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.468, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Y+kdwkIZcx-c for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9C11B400F for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1ja-0004j1-Qx for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:26 +0100 Received: from athedsl-379793.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.35.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:26 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-379793.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:03:17 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> <20100212124330.GB1422@muc.de> <4B754D02.3010700@gmail.com> <20100212132335.GC1422@muc.de> <4B756535.3050404@gmail.com> <20100212192524.GC1560@muc.de> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-379793.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20100212192524.GC1560@muc.de> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: aa926274-72b3-426b-8abb-3522ac1ff160 X-Archives-Hash: bde4a909cb674ab8caa72a22ab721026 On 02/12/2010 09:25 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Dale, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> 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? > >> 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. > > The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > just one RAM stick at a time. The correct procedure is to test just one stick in at least two different slots. This is to ensure that it's not the mainboard at fault (like a faulty RAM slot.)