[Gllug] Disk problems

[Rich Walker]

Walid Shaari <ws at melinux.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 09:42, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > my first reaction would be "it's a dead disc"
> > but after experiencing more or less the same problem, and finding out that
> > the memory was foobar, i'd say "replace the memory first"
> 
> why not use memtest86 from http://www.memtest86.com/ first to eliminate
> any doubts about memory (also about other things such as motherboard,
> processor but I guess not in this case) instead of replacing them

Second this. An hour running memtest is an hour well-spent. Don't assume
that, just because memtest finds a fault, that the RAM is actually
flakey; I find that it's just as likely to be a timing incompatibility,
and putting the RAM in a different motherboard produces ... no errors.

cheers, Rich.

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