Lockups with new memory

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:19, Duane Morin wrote:
> I just bumped my Dell 5150 laptop from 512m (2x256) to 1gig (1x).  ANd
> three separate times I got spontaneous lockups (no keyboard or mouse,
> hard power down required).  
> 
> I've put back the 2x256 for now.  What are the odds it's a linux config
> thing?  Im gonna add mem=1024m to lilo but I dont have faith that's it. 
> Should I assume it's just a bad dimm?

No need to make assumptions about your RAM.  Memtest86 will tell you if
the ram is bad or not.

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Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>