On 3/18/2011 7:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>>> In the end I found by running a Fedora Live CD
>>> that a memory module was faulty
>>> (the machine's Diagnostic program said it was fine).
>>
>> Memtest86 perhaps?
>
> The laptop is a Dell Latitude D610.
> There is a Diagnostic program one can enter by pressing F12 at boot-time.
> The memory part of this ran for over 30 minutes,
> and said the memory module was fine.

I've seen memtest take 3 days to find bad RAM.  Sometimes only certain 
patterns/timing will fail.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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