On 1/23/07, Pierre-Yves Rofes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, January 22, 2007 8:49 pm, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:33 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: >> (presumably good -- only let >> memtest run for about 3 minutes) > > You should probably test it much longer than 3 minutes before you can be > confident that the 256 MB chip doesn't have issues... > Indeed, 1 hour is the bare minimum for a memtest, and ideally you should let it run for about 7-8 hours (during one night for exemple)...
Well, I tested it all last night and still came up with no failures. I have tried booting into Windows (yuck) and it works reasonably well so I am guessing a problem with my Gentoo installation. I wanted to do a complete reinstall of everything (mostly due to swapping my hard drives), so I can live with the situation for the time being. Thanks to everyone who helped-- I probably would have ended up with a specialist just for this faulty memory. Cheers, Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
