Dale wrote: > > Here's the update. Grant and a couple others were right. So was some > of my search results, which varied widely. Shortly after my reply to > Grant, I shutdown the new rig. I set my old rig back up so I can watch > TV. Then I booted the ever handy Ventoy USB stick and ran the memtest > included with the Gentoo Live image. Within minutes, rut roh. :-( The > middle section of the test screen went red. It spit out a bunch of "f" > characters. I took a pic but haven't downloaded it yet but I figure it > has been seen before. Pic is to get new memory stick. Figure I need to > prove it is bad. > > Anyway, I removed one stick of memory, it still failed. Then I switched > sticks. That one passed the test with no errors. I put the original > stick back in but in another slot. Within minutes, it failed the same > as before. So, I put the good stick in and booted into the Gentoo Live > image. I mounted my OS, chrooted in and did a emerge -ae @system. The > bad stick is on my desk. It looks sad. Like me. > > Once the emerge was done, I booted back into the OS itself. Everything > seems to be working but I'm back down to 32GBs of memory. I'm trying to > start a emerge -ae world but got to start a new thread first. It claims > some weird things that sounds weird but I don't think it is related to > the memory issue. > > I wonder how much fun getting this memory replaced is going to be. o_O > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
I forgot to ask, is there anything else that bad memory could affect? I'm doing the emerge -e world to make sure no programs were affected but what about other stuff? Could this affect hard drive data for example? Just the things I created while stick was bad I'd hope. Just wondering what I should look out for here. Dale :-) :-)
