Bad Ram?

u2mike · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 209

Hey,

I have a stick of 512MB ram, I used it for over a month in linux and it seemed ok. But a little while back I installed windows on a second partition and had all sorts of problems. Mainly stability problems. I found it was due to this piece of ram. So my question is, do you think its a good idea to keep using it in linux? Will it be likely to cause problems?

Also, I'm installing the latest love sources that contains a "Bad ram" patch. If I do have bad ram would this make sure that there are issues with it?

steel300 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1155

http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

Check out that site on how to use the bad ram patch. There are a few things you need to pass on the kernel line for it to work.
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NightSpirit · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

Run memtest86 on the machine for a few hours, that will tell you if you'll have troubles or not.
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