Thanks to all who've responded. Through google I eventually found source code for memtester 4.0.5 at http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ .
Compiled out of the box, however my RAM tested all OK which leaves me back to where i started... Any other suggestions? At the ddb> prompt is there anythihng I can do to further troubleshoot? On 23/03/06, Damon McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Stuart. > > Hmmm... the machine is only connected by a serial console. Does anyone > know if OpenBSD-compatible source code for memtest86 is available? The > linux code doesn't compile on OpenBSD, and I'd like to be able to > interact with it via a serial console, preferably. > > Cheers, > Damon > > On 23/03/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006/03/23 09:31, Damon McMahon wrote: > > > Is this (very old) hardware just giving up the ghost, bad RAM (I've > > > seen a couple of mentions in the archives pointing to this), some > > > other component in need of replacement, or something else worth > > > investigating further? > > > > Memory is a fairly likely candidate; run memtest86++ and/or > > pull sticks of RAM.

