On Monday 31 October 2005 13:48, Gary Stainburn wrote: >On Monday 31 October 2005 1:40 pm, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:00 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> > I've replaced the memory because it looked like a mem fault >> >> If you believe that to be the case, run memtest86 (installable from >> extras). It'll pick up memory and related problems (e.g. motherboard >> might have other issues). > >I've run memtest a number of times now. I've got 2 slots and 5 memory >sticks. I've tried all sorts of variants with different sticks in >different slots, having a stick in just slot 1, having a stick in just >slot 2, having both slots full etc. > >Every time I run memtest86+ I get errors on test 5. The location and >number of the errors change as I change configs, but I never get a >clean test. I also never get errors on any othe other tests, just test >5. > >What's the chance that the problem's something other than memory. > >Any ideas what I can try next? Purchance are you running an Athlon XP-2800 with a 400mhz FSB in the bios settings? Try it at 333mhz for the FSB setting, the 2800 is not rated for 400mhz FSB use. There may be similar limitations for otehr cpu's also. >-- >Gary Stainburn > >This email does not contain private or confidential material as it >may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown >and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
