Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Tucker <> | Subject | Re: crash 5/5 w/ memtest86 | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:36:59 +1100 |
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> After getting several segfaults running fetchmail, I tried memtest86 for > the first time on my PC (Celeron 500, i810m/b from e-machines). Five out > of five tries from two different floppy disks crashed at 6% into test 1.
Does the machine in question have 256 MB of RAM, perchance?
I ask because 6% or 256Mb it about 15MB or so and some motherboards have a BIOS setting for a "memory hole at 15MB" (or something like that), which might be the cause.
Then again, it might not.
-Daz.
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