Kernel panic while running X - how to diagnose?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Chris G wrote:
>
> Well, touch wood, the BIOS update does seem to have fixed the memory
> problem.  Two complete passes through test 5 have been error free
> whereas previously I got a lot of errors on every pass.  I did try
> moving the memory around (before the BIOS update) and I was still
> getting errors so it's not just because I've reseated the memory.
>
> Now to see whether fixing the memory errors also fixed those kernel
> panics. 
>
>   
In one of my systems I was only able to run memtest sucesfully, (thus 
stopping kernel panics) after setting BIOS with a frequency lower than 
the memory standard (ex. instead of DDR400, DDR320).

L.

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