Linux does not like my computer

[Laszlo Pandy]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 12:01 pm, Rob Bowers wrote:
> Thank you much. I will try your suggestions. I had not realised, for
> instance, that there was utility in running the memtest more than once.
> What precisely is that testing?
Memtest looks for defects in your RAM. The kernel will put something in RAM 
and then when it is retrieved, if it has been corrupted this can cause 
crashes and otherwise inexplicable errors. The longer you run the test, the 
better because the memtest program will try different bit patterns. I have 
has RAM that was perfectly fine except for one particular pattern of bits 
which caused corruption.

Laszlo