[Gllug] Memory errors

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> 
> 
> I've just got a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. But since I've put it in,
> I've been getting frequent and random Oopsen. So I'm currently running
> memtest86 to see if it could be bad memory causing the problem. Sure
> enough, it picked up a couple of faults before I left this morning
> (I've left it running, so I'll see what it's like when I get home).
> 
> My question is, what can I expect from metest86? Are a handful of
> errors to be expected, or should it come back completely clean? Am
> I justified in taking the RAM back and demanding a replacement, or
> are a few errors normal?

It should come back clean, even after a few DAYS of running.

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