OT: Bad HD or bad RAM? - bad RAM!

[Nigel Ridley]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> On 26/11/2008, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
>> For the last few weeks I have been trying to install 8.10 on my daughter's PIII. I had already
>> added an extra stick of 256 MB RAM and was ready for a nice easy install....
>> Every time I tried it would get stuck fairly early on with a nice red screen and an error message
>> about a bat file on the CD. No problen burn another CD... OK try a different CD brand..... OK try
>> a different hard drive (this one probably has some badblocks)... OK try another hard drive, this
>> one is old and that is why the install gets stuck. I know I will repartition and not use the
>> first couple of gigabytes where the 'problem' is... OK I'll try another hard drive.... ENOUGH
>> already! I'' just use a live CD for just now - Slax seems quite nice and light -- what's that
>> option on the boot menu? Memtest? Nah it couldn't possibly be the memory..........
>>
>>
> 
> nigel, i take it you're using an alternate CD? if bot, try using the
> alternate CD, and keep pressing alt+f4 every now and then during the
> install, it might contain some useful info about errors and the like,
> then press alt+f1 to go back to the normal install screen.
> hope this helps. and in anyway, it won't hurt to run memtest ;-)
> 

Actually I know that English isn't your mother language, and please forgive me for assuming that 
everybody would understand my little story, but, yes I did do the memstest and it immediately 
showed that one of the memory sticks was waaaay bad! So I took the offender out and checked the 
other two and then did a perfect install :-)


Blessings,

Nigel

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