Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:52:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Philippe Strauss <> | Subject | Re: Various errors including TCP bug... |
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Randy Jay Yarger wrote:
> Howdy, my system is a a PPro 200 with 64MB of RAM and Adaptec SCSI card > (full boot messages below). I've been having odd problems with the system > for a couple of months now, leading up to a complete hard disk curruption > last week (which I would have avoided if I had the newest e2fsck. Get it!) > Any way, the weirdness hasn't stopped, and I want to catch it before my > new root disk gets zapped (and I'm just plain tired of going to reboot it > several times a day). > > >From looking at newsgroups, FAQs, etc it seems that RAM may be a problem > and/or my Adaptec SCSI card, or maybe something else that I'm missing > completely. I ran the chipmunk ram test on 16MB of my RAM the other day, > but since the machine is a high volume Web and e-mail server I wasn't able > to shut it down to test all of the RAM.
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I use to have RAM corruption problem gone unoticed by memtest86-1.2, and it was right after adding two 16MB SIMM modules. (32->64). Be aware of not mixing SIMM's of different brend/fab date, just this simple fact can cause big problems on lousy (read PC-AT design) non-ECC hardware. If you put some money with a PPro, better go for ECC. Also try to slow down timings on your chipset bios setting..
Hope this helps.
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