[Lancaster] memory error?

[andy baxter]

Richard Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:49:58PM +0100, andy baxter wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm getting intermittent system freezes. The whole system just locks up 
>> and nothing works, including ctrl-alt-f1. I've tried running a memory 
>> test, both from the hard disk and a usb cd drive, and in both cases the 
>> test program freezes with junk on the screen. There doesn't seem to be 
>> any pattern to this - sometimes it happens just after I switch on, and 
>> sometimes after an hour or so.
>>
>> Is it worth getting some new memory and trying that? (I've tried just 
>> taking the memory chip out and putting it back in).
>>     
>
>
> Some distros come with a memory checker that offers itself on grub bootup.
> www.memtest86.com/ Might be worth having a go with that before spending
> money ?
>   
I have tried running the grub memory checker, and it hangs after a few 
seconds. The same happens when I run memtest86 from a live CD.

andy