[Wolves] Ubuntu mysterious restarts

[Kevanf1]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:19:54 +0000, kev adams <kev at magicmoon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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It's always possible that the clock timings are different on the two
sticks.  This would cause trouble.  Anyway, thanks for the URL.  I've
got memtest myself now and have about a dozen memory modules to
test...... if they are any good they may well be offered on here.  But
don't get excited as I think they are all very low modules - 8 and
16mb ones.

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