OK, well after over 18 hours running memtest86 still hasn't found a thing wrong with the memory. So if the problem isn't specifically EQ (stupid verant), then I guess I should look into seeing if maybe the CPU (Athlon 650, not overclocked) is getting just a little too warm, and if so, get some better cooling fans/whatever for it. I'm using the fan/heatsink that came with it in the box from AMD. > Bah, chock one up to stupidity. My mouse has moved your system needs to restart > for the changes to take effect. It got bumped both times while I was doing > stuff on the other system. So I moved it off to the side and upside down. Now > it made it to test 6. Well, it will have to wait till morning (the site says it > could take as long as 5.5 hours to complete the full tests). > > > OK, well I gave memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) a shot. It gets to test 4 (Moving > > inv, 32 bit pattern, cached) and after less than 15 minutes of total running > > time the system just reboots. I don't see any error messages popping up on the > > screen, so I guess it is safe to assume that the memory is most likely trouble > > and the error is fatal. Guess I need to find the receipt and figure out how to > > deal with the lifetime warranty of it to get it replaced (yep Fry's RAM). > > > > Is this a fair assessment? > > > > > > linux) that could do things like test my systems memory for errors to see > > > > if that is the culprit. > > > > > > Check for memtest. It's in sysutils in debian. > > > > > > Other packages: > > > > > > bonnie++ - This is Russell Coker's hard drive bottleneck testing program > > > crashme - Stress tests operating system stability > > > hwtools - Collection of tools for low-level hardware management > > > purity - Automated purity testing software. > > > purity-off - Sex related purity tests > > > > > > Those last two might not be so helpful ;-). > > > > > > Info from hwtools: > > > > > > irqtune: adjusts priority of interrupts (improves serial performance), > > > scanport: scans for hardware not already handled by Linux drivers, > > > memtest86: a real mode memory test, > > > memmxtest: another real mode memory test, but with MMX support.