Lockups with new memory

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:18:05AM -0500, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:19, Duane Morin wrote:
> > I just bumped my Dell 5150 laptop from 512m (2x256) to 1gig (1x).  ANd
> > three separate times I got spontaneous lockups (no keyboard or mouse,
> > hard power down required).  
> > 
> > I've put back the 2x256 for now.  What are the odds it's a linux config
> > thing?  Im gonna add mem=1024m to lilo but I dont have faith that's it. 
> > Should I assume it's just a bad dimm?
> 
> No need to make assumptions about your RAM.  Memtest86 will tell you if
> the ram is bad or not.

Download memtest86 and install it on a bootable floppy:
Get it from here:
http://www.memtest86.com/



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