Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:56:36 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Letters mysterously changing from a to e. |
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Morgul Nazgul wrote:
> [1.] The letter 'e' spontaneously gets changed to the letter 'a'.
> I have 32meg of 72pin non-parity SIMMs
First guess is you've got a bad bit somewhere in memory, which is notoriously hard to test. First thing to do is devise a test that shows up the problem. One that works for a lot of people is doing a large gzip, for instance with the kernel source. Using md5sum, you should be able to repeatedly zip a large file and get an identical checksum.
Once you've managed to repeat it, try swapping out RAM and test again. Then try switching kernels, drive cables, and drives.
The reason a memory error might show up with 2.2 and not 2.0 is that usage patterns have changed substantially.
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