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Re: dmesg entries and memtest

From: mark <m.roth2006(at)rcn.com>
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 08:48:38 EDT


Johan Booysen wrote:
> Can anyone maybe help me understand what the following means?
>
> I know it's something to do with memory, but can't find good information
> on what is happening here.

<snip>
> I've tried memtest but it seems to hang after running for about 45
> minutes. It tells me that it's done 10% and is on test 6 at that stage,
<snip>
> Will really appreciate it if anyone can help me with advice on this.
> The only thing I can think of is to remove memory chips and run memtest
> on each one individually (if I know what to look out for in memtest, of
> course - I find the memtest info on the Internet quite confusing at the
> moment and need to figure this out as soon as possible).

That's exactly what you need to do. If memtest hangs, you've got a bad memory.

        mark

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