On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:41 -0800, James Liggett wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 03:24 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
I think hardware problems with the RAM are highly unlikely. I've had plenty of those, and when your RAM is defective, nothing works - you get spurious kernel panics, and you will find out that it's defective really soon.
Well, that might be true most of the time, but not always. Case in point: a while back I was helping a friend of my brother's build a computer. We loaded Windows XP and a couple games on it (Half-Life, Max Payne, a few others which I can't remember) Things seemed to work fine. Then we tested the games. Everything except HL hard-locked the machine. It drove us nuts all night trying to figure it out. The next day the guy swapped out his ram (for reasons I can't explain) and things worked fine. It just goes to show that sometimes it can be what you least expect... ;-) I wish I could shed a little more light on your plight though. I wish you the best of luck :)
James
Just run memtest86 on the machine overnight. That'll tell you whether there's a hardware memory issue or not.
-Scott Ritchie