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On 23/06/14 12:37, mr meowski wrote: > > memtest is telling you pretty unequivocally that there is bad RAM in the > system - remove it and replace it with good units if possible, and keep > running memtest until the errors go away. In defence of RAM, we had a box that repeatedly failed memtest, turns out the DELL BIOS would co-opt some memory and kept quiet about doing so (it is suppose to reserve it). Passed the DELL memory test fine as it exempted the memory in question (doh!). Unfortunately the OS also didn't understand what the BIOS was doing, but once it was explained to it, it stopped its random crashing. So even memtest errors need interpreting. But if memtest fails, changing memory doesn't help, then likely board or processor as Mark said, I'd be binning the box, but I always use to ruthlessly cannibalise memory, disks, etc. This always results in big pile of hardware that is just a little too old to reuse. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq