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 1I6bz7-0006tD-5s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:47:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l660kQGR005421; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:46:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l660fs9i000418 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:41:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363D565ABB for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:41:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.089 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.089 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.089] 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 MEya1b5J+ZY3 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A12565AAF for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I6bss-0000g3-3E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:41:23 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:41:18 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:41:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM? Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070601 SeaMonkey/1.1.2) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 53705525-38bc-41a3-8fc2-7fce14aa66f9 X-Archives-Hash: d23c0f388310550628b6349d412ba578 Iain Buchanan pcorp.com.au> writes: > I've swapped the sticks around, used either by themselves, tried > different slots, - everything except completely different RAM. hello Iain, Not sure this is useful, but, if you can get the system to boot, you and look more closely at the memory specifics with the 'lshw' command. Then if you can find the mobo book, look at the published memory requirements and go into the bios, and look at the bios settings for something out of the ordinary. If you can, swap the memory with another know good system for a few days.... Something might show up as a problem > (Ultimately, I'm trying to diagnose a random reboot problem, which makes > me suspicious of the memory, but I'm not sure) I always look at the temperature as the mobo makes it available, or checking the temperature of the hard drive with 'hddtemp /dev/' Often power supplies will run ok can then glitch causing a reboot. It cannot hurt to swap the power supply to see if that fixes the random reboots.... hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list