[Techtalk] Diagnosing a hardware problem

[Helen Rosseau]

Hi Vera

	I've recently had three different people say that their RAM had gone bad. One 
person's problem emulated a bad hard drive. Another thought their motherboard 
was bad.  I think changing the RAM first with known good RAM would be an easy 
test and save a lot of headaches later.

Helen

On Friday 15 November 2002 08:56, Vera Childs wrote:
> Well, I ran memtest86 overnight, and lo and behold, I came back to work
> this morning and found that it had 3 errors. Here's the output:
>
> Tst: 1
> Pass: 11
> Failing Address: 000125809f0 - 293.0 MB
> Good: ffffffff
> Bad: fbffffff
> Err-Bits: 040000
> Count: 3
> Chan: 1
>
> Does it sound like this might be the root of most, if not all, of my
> problems I listed yesterday? It'd certainly be an easy fix to replace the
> memory. :)
>
>
> -Vera
>
>
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