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[OT]Dumb hardware question



Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> On 10 May 2003 13:52:51 -0400
> Gregory Boyce <gboyce2 at badbelly.com> wrote:
> 
> > You might want to run memtest86 first.  It'll check for bad memory,
> > which could easily cause freezes, and you dont' have to talk anything
> > apart first.
> That was done quite a while ago. Ran it for about an hour.

An hour may not be long enough... I had to run it for about 24 hours
before it found the error.

-derek

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