On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:44 -0700, Alexander Toresson wrote: > My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running > windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really > unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install > debian on it. However, just to check, I ran memtest86 on it, to check > the ram. Result: lots of errors between 14 and 17 mb. > Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting new ram > for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it may need > special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do...
take a look at http://www.crucial.com - either put you computer make/model in or try their "Belarc Advisor". 'fraid I can't answer how to get Debian GNU/Linux to ignore part of RAM (isn't that a BIOS thing?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
