<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Douglas Peale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Douglas_Peale@comcast.net">Douglas_Peale@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/15/2010 12:14 PM, Alex Tomlins wrote:<br>
> On 15/07/10 00:12, James Orr wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> I'd seriously consider running a memory checker on your system. I'd<br>
> recommend memtest86 (<a href="http://memtest.org/" target="_blank">http://memtest.org/</a>). it's free, and very good. I<br>
> think it's also included as a package in ubuntu, so you can just apt-get<br>
> install it, and it then shows up as an entry in your boot menu.<br>
> Otherwise, just burn the downloadable iso to a cd and boot from that.<br>
><br>
> If you suspect faulty ram it's always worth making sure. If you ram is<br>
> faulty, all sorts of random things can break.<br>
><br>
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</div>Let the memtest86 run for a long time. I have had memory that repeatably failed only on the 5th pass, never earlier.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I will do that, but I did find some references to some people with the same problem including the crash on this list and I'm not having any other issues with the system so I suspect my memory is OK.<br>
<br>Although it was very strange how it was working OK for a while then suddenly nothing I did could make it work again until I switched it to RCA audio. <br></div></div><br>