[ltp] Re: Problems with Ubuntu 2.6.17-10?

[Richard Neill]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> On 12/15/06, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Have you tried checking your RAM?  That would explain some of the
>> symptoms, and why DOS doesn't find the error (since it probably never
>> tries to use much of your memory).  Run memtest for 24 hours.
> 
> I suppose that's worth a try, though I've heard conflicting reports
> about the efficacy of memtest.

In the last few years, I've had 3 machines fail inexplicably and in the 
weirdest ways. Every one of them turned out to be caused by bad RAM. 
Note that memtest really does need to run overnight, ideally 24 hours 
before you have a clean bill of health. Usually, errors pop up much 
sooner than that, but by no means always.

You can run memtest from knoppix.

Regards,

Richard

> 
> The PC Doctor thing does appear to run a complete memory test, but it
> didn't find anything.