Alan Dayley wrote:
> Test your memory. I had bad RAM in a system a couple of years ago. It
> manifested as weird problems and hangs and then difficulty booting, etc.
> The biggest headache of the adventure was the slow corruption of the
> hard drive file system resulting in the loss of some data.
>
> Because Linux actually makes full use of your systems resources, it uses
> all you RAM and expects RAM to perform correctly. Windows is far more
> "quietly tolerant" of RAM errors even though the RAM will continue to
> corrupt things under that OS too. At least that has been my experience.
>
> Boot a Linux install CD and choose the memory test option. Let it run
> at least a full pass. Any error at all can be a problem for the OS and
> you should remove the offending module to run with less RAM or replace it.
>
> Alan
Uuummm, and if one doesn't have the memtest option? In the past two
weeks I've tried to install Xandros twice, Fedora Core 6 twice, Kubuntu
twice, and Fedora 7 once (and upgraded once.) I didn't see a memory test
mentioned. ????
Bob Eaton
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