Ran Memtest 86 and it did find 5 errors at 147 and 150 Meg. The BadRam kernel patch
looks promising but the authors website is down and I can't get the one for
2.2.16-22 only 2.4. Anyway I have new ram coming so it may be moot anyway.
Michael
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Michael McLeod wrote:
>
> > I have been thinking about this problem and am wondering, HOW & WHY this
> > happens. What is the relationship of RH7 to RAM, how does it use it which can
> > stop it from booting and why did RH6 and Windows 98 1st continue to work? I'm
> > wondering if there is anybody on this list who can answer these questions for
> > me?
> > Thanks
> > Michael
> >
> > Michael McLeod wrote:
> >
> > > I had an idea it might be RAM (don't know just a hunch). I has 32Meg of SIMM
> > > so I removed my SDRAM DIMM and installed the SIMM. I Installed RH7 and it
> > > worked, albeit, a little slow due to only 32 Meg of RAM. I tried adding
> > > back into the setup the 128 Meg SDRAM DIMM and now I have 160Meg of RAM and
> > > everything works fine, WOW. Something to remember.
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > Michael McLeod wrote:
> > >
> I would suspect that part of the RAM is marginal, and the 7.0 installer
> was pushing it hard enough to make it fail. Windows and the RedHat
> after it is installed, are not pushing the RAM. Or addign the 32M of
> SIMM may have changed the timing of the memory access enough to make
> the DIMM work. (Or it could be something else...) One way to test this
> would be to remove the 32M of SIMMs, and run Memtest 86 and see if it
> finds errors. If it finds errors, put the SIMMs back in, and see if the
> errors go away... Then double check your memory timing settings in the
> BIOS. Also, did you have any strange lockups, crashes, or segfaults
> under RH6? Things like compiling the kernel are good for showing memory
> problems...
>
> Mikkel
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