On Thursday 22 March 2007, Stephen Harris wrote:
I have run memtest86 (from Knoppix 5.1) all night long on the 8 gig of ram and it comes up OK. In the past, we have found problematic Corsair ram this way. This 8 gig seems to be OK as far as memtest thinks.
Today I will begin removing ram and testing to see what happens. Does anyone have some ideas what might be the problem? All the other five boxes with Corsair ram work fine.
Is this the only box with 8Gb RAM? Do the others have smaller amounts? Is the motherboard and BIOS the same? Are you running the same kernel?
Is the machine stable if you run it with mem=1024M on the kernel options line (so limitting it to 1Gb RAM). Do you need the hugemem kernel?
He's on x86_64, no need for hugemem.
/Peter