[Wolves] Ubuntu mysterious restarts

kev adams kev at magicmoon.co.uk
Mon Mar 14 18:13:25 GMT 2005


On Monday 14 Mar 2005 17:41, Paul Harrison wrote:
> David Goodwin wrote:
> | 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.....
>
> I seem to be getting sporadic errors with memtest: individual sticks
> have checked out OK, but a joint test has not.

I've had trouble in the past with incompatible memory.  They might be fine 
individually but not compatible to work together.  Since then I've always 
tried to buy memory from the same source.  Obviously not always practical & 
difficult to be sure it'll be matched when you upgrade later on.

Kev



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