Hi Sid,It's strongly recommended. I've now found that both SDRAMS with the same batch number are experiencing the same error with memtest, that's after I had a lockup with the one I thought was good. They will be replaced under lifetime warranty by Kingston memory. I've temporarily stuck a PC2700 512M stick in and it's been solid under memtest and with a full workload.
On 12/26/05, Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Don't rule out hardware. This SuSE 10.0 x86 box worked without problems
on kernels up to 2.6.15-rc6-git2, but I experienced strange apparent
filesystem corruptions/compile failures running normally and hard
lockups when running mythtv with 2.6.15-rc6-git6 and 2.6.15-rc7, while
on the Mandriva 2006 x86 box and the SuSE x86_64 there were no problems.
Until I found the suspect SDRAM, on some occasions I had to run
reiserfsck before 2.6.15-rc6-git2 would boot again correctly after
trying rc6-git6 or -rc7. Finally I got a corruption again with
2.6.15-rc7, replaced the SDRAM stick with the one taken out previously,
booted up on 2.6.15-rc7 with no problems. I had run memtest some days
earlier, but only for a couple of hours. (current uptime 1 day 1.04hrs).
Hmmm.. It looks, it is time to run memtest on my box. Thanks for the tip.
Regards,