From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 13:18:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5917D16A403 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:18:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8970A43D58 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:18:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (shmick.shmon.net [10.0.0.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9A03A429; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:18:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:18:27 +1000 From: Nick Withers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060426231827.2e7ce58d.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <200604261310.27904.ben@spooty.net> References: <200604201017.48209.ben@spooty.net> <200604261008.59455.ben@spooty.net> <20060426202457.e6bb41c2.nick@nickwithers.com> <200604261310.27904.ben@spooty.net> Organization: nickwithers.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: Ben Paley Subject: Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:18:42 -0000 On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:10:26 +0000 Ben Paley wrote: > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:24, Nick Withers wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:58 +0000 > > > > Ben Paley wrote: > > > Could anyone give me a hint as to how to get started checking the > > > hardware? It's a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I really don't have the > > > foggiest idea what to look for or what to check - I've never had any > > > problems with it before. > > > > You might want to have a gander at Memtest86 > > (http://www.memtest86.com/, /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest86) for > > memory testing, I reckon this should be your first port of call. > > Thanks a lot for the advice. Unfortunately I can't run it as I have no floppy > drive (unless there's another way? I seem to remember it's possible to make a > bootable usb flash drive...). There's an downloadable ISO for creating a bootable CD on their website (http://www.memtest86.com/). > I ran sysutils/memtest with no errors, for whatever that's worth. Not familiar with it myself, but I imagine it's only capable of checking user-space memory if it's run in userland. > Cheers, > Ben -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446