Re: Kernel freezing....

Jorge Carminati
2001-12-06T13:17:41Z

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--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > The problem is that after a couple of minutes of use it starts to
> > dump kernel messages, and it ends freezing completely. Almost all
> the
> > time I ran in init 1 mode (single user).
>
> That does look like ram problems. Either somethign scribbling on RAM
> it
> shouldnt or

Thanks Alan, I´ll test tonight the ram with memtest86.

Any suggested setting for memtest86 ?.

>
> > P.S.: The notebook works fine under Windows XP, just to discard a
> HW
> > failure.
>
> Proves nothing. Linux and Windows tend to allocate critical data in
> very
> different places in RAM. Give it an overnight run with memtest86 and
> see
> what pops up

Ok, understood.

Regards,
Jorge Carminati.

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