[Tfug] Memtest question

[erich]

This is just my own experience,
                         but beware of memtest failures. I chose to 
ignore them on this
one particular machine that has now been shelved. You guessed it, I had
system crashes. I had to reboot everything after a crash including my
server/router, and I nervously watched as filesystems recovered errors
after about six of these events.
                          computers are cheap. Your time to fix them is 
expensive
in terms of the drugs you may have to take to calm your nerves :)

                                                                                                      
Erich

earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> I have 2 computers that seem to be working OK.  I decided to run Memtest
> on boh of them.  I use Ubuntu and run Memtest86 from Grub on both.
>
> One is a Dell Poweredge 500 SC with I GB ECC memory.  I just began setting
> this one up as a small printer and file server.  Memtest shows problems
> immediately.  Is this a problem with EDD memory and Memtest?
>
> The other is a P4 with DDR memory.  It doesn't indicate errors but only
> runs to 20% of the testing and locks.  I have uptimes of 4 or 5 days with
> this machine.  There is an occasional total lock up with DVDs using VLC;
> this is usually with a bad DVD.  Could this be the DDR memory?
>
> Earl
>
>
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