Hard Crashes Increasing, FC3

[Rob Kirkbride]

Jess Anderson wrote on 25/03/2005 02:46:

>Scot L. Harris
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>>Jess Anderson:
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>>>I have three slots and three 512MB DIMMs. What I did was run
>>>memtest three times, rotating the DIMMs (call 'em ABC) by one
>>>slot each time:
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>>Why not pull one DIMM at a time an run memtest86? If you get a
>>clean pass then those two chips are good.
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>Ja, that's my plan.
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I was getting crashing similar to yourself (often to do with ext3) I had 
been grappling with my server starting to crash regularly (dual AMD 
machine), ran memtest and everything was reported ok. I decided that my 
CPUs were running a little hot so changed the fans on them. This 
unfortunately did not cure the problem. I took a stick of ram out and 
the server still fell over. I swapped the sticks over and its now been 
running for several days (would generally crash once a day before). 
Strangely I had a branded stick (crucial) and an unbranded one. Its the 
branded one that caused me the problem!
I'd been tearing my hair out on this for ages - very annoying, hope 
you're able to solve your problem too!

Rob