On 17/05/15 11:38, Leo 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
>
Hi Leo
If your memory is on more than one card, try removing them one at a time
and booting up. That's how I identified the dud memory in my PC.
But I expect you've already tried that. :)
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