[Wolves] Ubuntu mysterious restarts

David Goodwin dg at clocksoft.com
Mon Mar 14 12:44:44 GMT 2005


> Curious.  I ran memtest86 just a month ago with no errors.  This time,
> it threw up a whole string of them straight away.
> 
> I've pulled out the offending memory stick & replaced it.  A brief run
> of memtest86 (only to about 7%) revealed no errors.
> 
> Is this stick on its way out, or getting too hot??  I've removed the
> side of the PC to see if that will help.
> 
> Thanks for pointing out the obvious David, I hadn't thought to try as
> it seemed unlikely.

I've not known memory to fail (wear out)... but it could be that perhaps 
it was damaged (e.g. you've moved / removed it, and given it a static 
shock). Or of course, overheating.....

David.

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