Ryan Sims wrote:
My computer has had some bizzare symptoms for quite some time now, and I finally ran memtest86 from the livecd, and was wondering if anyone could help me understand what the diagnosis is.
There were definately errors that popped up; say a page and a half of them. (and here's the stupid question part) does this mean I need to drop $60 on a new PC3200 stick? Is there an acceptable level of error?
I've been assuming that the random crashes (usually only happens in
Windows, but *sometimes* Gentoo will develop some tics) were heat
problems or buggy software; but now I'm not so sure.
Could be the processor or the motherboard also as both effect the way the system addresses memory. I'd borrow a different stick of ram from someone who has one and see if that solves the problem. Also, if you're mixing registered with unbuffered memory, you may have problems. I had similiar issues with that in the past. The way to tell if memory is registered or unbuffered (same as un-registered) is if there's a small chip inbetween the large memory chips, it's registered, and if that space between the main memory chips is empty, it's unbuffered. Let us know what happens, and good luck.
James
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