From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 16:54:32 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 9852016A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:54:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wtallis@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA68143E0F for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:54:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wtallis@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so692992wra for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DSnz5LqKKYq390Dv0DcuECzQI1myVmAT6GBWy0GkVCClgcBNn8TIxT47O1DCcHqk5WeoYRhdogwFw7quGvcFBEzeelYVb8u0MAdahTRgMbmfihD+K1x2sMvnxr3uEtB5A7LGjLQbVdMpyTRhOYN5bBsYqSTzRTzkxFxhwFIUyKo= Received: by 10.54.108.4 with SMTP id g4mr1380772wrc; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.61.8 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:51:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6dd99a3f0601270851p249eb9d6lf3f6db991aeb9366@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:51:26 -0500 From: Billy Tallis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <43DA475A.5050606@rics.bwh.harvard.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43D8EF99.6020309@rics.bwh.harvard.edu> <43D96B68.5080907@rics.bwh.harvard.edu> <43DA475A.5050606@rics.bwh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: RAM check - Followup question 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: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:54:32 -0000 It might be as simple as the bios settings. Which memtest tests gave errors= ? Assuming that you have not upgraded the ram or anything like that, it is probably the chipset. What type of chipset do you have? On 1/27/06, Philip Juels wrote: > Curious...the system is a Dell Optiplex GX270...RAM system is PC3200 > 2x512MB DIMMs in a the dual-channel arrangment. If I run memtest > against this setup, I get numerous errors. However, if run memtest with > only one DIMM installed (either one), I get no reported errors. Would > this still be an issue with the DIMMs or something wrong with the mobo? > > PJ > > PS...pardon me for asking a hardware question on a FreeBSD list :-) > > Philip Juels wrote: > > > Thanks...I downloaded the iso and memtest confirmed that the system > > has memory problems. > > > > PJ > > > > Noel Jones wrote: > > > >> On 1/26/06, Philip Juels wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I'm running into random seg faults during KDE and Gnome compilation, > >>> and > >>> I and others on the list suspect faulty RAM. Are there any utils out > >>> there that can test/diagnose RAM (aside from the laughable BIOS POST)= . > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> http://www.memtest86.com/ > >> http://www.memtest.org/ > >> > >> -- > >> Noel Jones > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >