Grant Coady wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:10:39 -0300, Rogério Brito <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi there. I'm seeing a really strange problem on my system lately and I
am not really sure that it has anything to do with the kernels.
Probably not, I had a similar problem recently and for a test case
copied a .iso image file then compared it to original (cp + cmp),
turned out to be bad memory, and yes, memtest86 did not find the
problem. Check mobo datasheet if 2+ double-sided memory allowed,
you may need to stay at 1GB to reduce bus loading.
I work a lot with hardware any my experience is that memtest is not very
good at detecting errors. I have a Socket 7 board somewhere with bad L2
cache - it was unstable but memtest was unable to find anything.
However, GoldMemory found some errors - they disappeared after disabling
L2 cache and crashes disappeared too. It's not free but at least
shareware - you can find it at http://www.goldmemory.cz/ The older
version (IIRC 5.07) was better, I had problems with some of the newer
ones on perfectly OK hardware (when the test should start, it rebooted
instead).
--
Ondrej Zary
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