thanks for the information i ran the memtest utility which is in the sysutils package. it runs through 16 different test, ran through them 4 times with out errors. that seems to be a very vague document.doesn't really provide exact answers but heh, i guess that is life, never and exact science. At 10:03 AM 5/5/03 +1000, you wrote: >http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ has lots of useful info on this. >Regards >Aaron >On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:47:00PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: >> I have also heard that this can be caused by overheating. It is my >> experience that a computer uses a lot more power and its internal >> temperature rises while compiling a kernel. Your fan may not be powerful >> enough to compensate for this problem. If this is the case, new ram won't >> help. You may simply need to replace the fan. >> >> Lorenzo >> >> "Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US companies >> like Microsoft." - Some AOL'er. >> "To this end we dedicate ourselves..." -Don >> -- From the sig of "Don", don at cs.byu.edu >> >> Johan Bergstr?m staggered into view and mumbled: >> >> > That usually implys hardware problems. Probably some bad memory bits. >> > >> > >> > jack mendez <wiler1 at earthlink.net> writes: >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >