Frequent ubuntu "freezes" after RAM upgrade
Andrea Fortino
andreas.fortino at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 18:27:41 UTC 2009
Hi,
I've got a quite old pc with ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit). CPU 2,6GHz, GeForce
FX 5200 128MB, motherboard Via P4PB 400 with 3 RAM slots, each one with
512 GB (tot 1,5 GB). Swap partition size is circa 1,5 GB. Checked on
internet, max RAM size is 3GB:
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/via/p4pb_400.htm
So I just buyed three RAM blocks (DIMM, each one 1 GB).
BIOS can read all of 3 GB, but ubuntu often "freezes" after some minutes
of work. So I try ubuntu memory test (option from GRUB menu). Test #5
("block move, 64 moves") reports numerous errors. Retried memory test,
with only 2 GB (checked every possible combination of 3 blocks): no
errors found. So all 3 RAM blocks are ok, I think.
Then I decide, not so hopefully, to upgrade BIOS:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/others/p4pb_400.jsp
No changes.
As last attempt, I install 2.6.24-26-server kernel. Again, no changes
(ubuntu still freezes after few minutes of uptime)
What do you think? Any solutions?
Thank you in advance! :-)
Ciao,
Andrea
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