No, I am not overclocking. I also doubt it would be a problem with the dimm slots since it worked fine when I first got the machine with only 256 Mb ram. Kevin --- Alex Deucher <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ===== __________________________________ 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
