could be a bad DIMM slot or a faulty board. Are you overclocking? Alex --- Kevin Whittingstall <kevin_whittingstall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. > > I ran memtest on my > redhat 8 machine (which works fine) and got a clean > memtest86 bill of > health. I then ran it on my machine thats been > crapping out (Redhat 9), and it > failed miserably. I then took a stick of ram out of > my "good" machine, > placed it in the "crap" machine and the test failed. > This leads me to believe that it could be something > else, like over > heating, the motherboard, etc. > > Any thoughts? > > Kevin > > > --- Alex Deucher <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Maybe you have a bad stick of ram, try running > > memtest86. > > > > http://www.memtest86.com/ > > > > Alex > > > > --- Kevin Whittingstall > > <kevin_whittingstall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > A while back, I got a pePentium (256 > > Mb > > > ram) running reredhat.0. Everything worked fine. > > I > > > then removed the single 256 stick and inserted 2 > > 512 > > > Mb sticks. At first, XfXfreeept crashing...it > > turns > > > out that it dididn like one of the scscreensavers > > as > > > running, so I disabled it, and that seem to fix > > the > > > problem. However, now, I'veveoticed that my > > system > > > tends to get hung up whenever I run the titiniestf > > > applications. The funny thing, is that > > I'veveoticed > > > that the amount of memory being used (as told be > > the > > > 'free' cocommandtends to slowly increase until i > > have > > > about 60 Mb free, which then results in random > > > crcrashes I'veveested the ram by removing 1 and > > > running with the other (and vice-versa) and the > > same > > > thing happens. I have 1 swap partition (478 Mb) > > that > > > seems to never get used. Is there something I can > > > check before assuming that the problem is in the > > > memory slot? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Kevin > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
