Diagnosis: is this machine broken?

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/11/2010 12:36, Sandy Harris wrote:
> i have a machine -- Atom 1.6 GHz, single core but hyperthreaded, Intel board
> and 2 gigs RAM (the maximum supported). A while ago it began giving many
> errors, all disk-related, so I replaced the disk.
>
> Now it mostly runs fine and Checkbox (the tester on the Ubuntu system
> menus) reports all OK, but there are three worrying items. When I try
> memtest x86+ off the boot menu, it fails with a message about
> "insufficient low memory". At boot time, there are many error messages
> from udevd along the lines of "worker failed to respond". Finally, the
> drscheme application is horrendously slow; menus take several
> seconds to open.
>
> I wonder if there might be some motherboard or RAM fault that caused
> the earlier disk corruption. If so, replacing the disk will not have fixed it
> and problems are likely to recur. This is worrying.
>
> What is my next step in diagnosis here?
>    

Not enough information here, Sandy.

Which version of Ubuntu are you running? (meaning off which boot menu 
are you running "memtest").

Instead of doing this memtest from the boot menu do it from the 
installation CD. Tell us what the result are.

For my limited knowledge, I suspect that there is problem with the RAM - 
"insufficient low memory".

What shows up when you check the BIOS settings? Waht does the BIOS show 
as basic memory and then the rest? Do you have BIOS configured to shadow 
video and whatever? How big is your "video window" (for the videos card) 
set in your BIOS?

BC

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