On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:58, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > This really shouldn't matter, but there is nothing installed in your > first dimm slot. Just for grins, swap the outer dimm to the opposite > dimm slot. The middle one was there first:-) > > Dimms have different ratings, and even dimms from the same manufacturer > can be different. You might look at the dimms and see if you see a value > for CL. It should be the same on both dimms (eg. CL=2.5 on one dimm and > CL=2 on the other is bad. But, memtest usually shows errors if this is > causing problems). Have you tried removing the new dimm and rebooting to > see if you still have segfaults? I was hoping I'd not need to take it apart; apart from being my main desktop i's also running 'X -query' to five other machines. I'll do it later today. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/