Damnit hit send too soon.
Try testing ram in another system is another, and very conclusive, test.
Enjoy
On 17 May 2015 11:38, "Leo" <linux@???> wrote:
>
>
> On 14/05/15 09:40, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
>> I'd go along with that.
>>
>> The ones that normally go are the electrolytic types .. aluminium cans
>> with black(usually) printing. The electrolyte is a liquid and tends to
>> dry out over a number of years use in a warm environment. Swelling,
>> (usually of the flat top), discolouration, oozing electrolyte.
>>
>> The next most likely candidates are tantalum capacitors, which tend to
>> be little black rectangular block. When they fail, they tend to blow a
>> corner off of the moulding, or sometimes just a small hole/crater.
>>
>> Most of the rest will be ceramics, which are usually trouble-free.
>>
>> Gordon.
>>
>
> So I've had a look at the capacitors, and I can't see any that look
> broken. I've also done some more investigation and found the following: if
> the computer locks up and I then run memtest on reboot it finds errors in
> the same memory locations each time. However if I reboot cleanly it doesn't
> find errors. The fact it finds them in the same locations would indicate to
> me that it's a memory problem. However, I also ran the mprime torture test,
> and that failed on both the memory intensive test, and the test that
> doesn't use much memory. Which would tend to indicate that it's not a
> memory problem.
>
> I'm now trying a kernel parameter that should stop it using the "bad"
> memory to see if that fixes it...
>
> Leo
>
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