Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:29:11 -0400 From: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: it keeps crashing and I don't know why Message-ID: <53E4DEB7.7070902@pchotshots.com> In-Reply-To: <809311aa7e3c0e025ffd98fc1bd0f209@mhoenicka.de> References: <20140808132735.GA2102@home.parts-unknown.org> <524f159823ff336519ca97c9b2b57bed@mhoenicka.de> <20140808135357.GA392@home.parts-unknown.org> <809311aa7e3c0e025ffd98fc1bd0f209@mhoenicka.de>
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On 8/8/2014 10:00 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > At 2014-08-08 15:53, David Benfell was heard to say: >> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:34:31PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote: >>> >>> Are you sure the hardware is ok? >> >> No, I'm not sure. But if (see below) you think the memory is bad, it >> seems to me that some Linux live CDs at least used to include a memory >> test. >> >>> I'd first stick in a live CD or thumb >>> drive of whatever OS you can get hold of and see what happens before >>> blaming FreeBSD for these failures. Bad memory may cause similar >>> symptoms. >> >> Anything else I can reasonably test while I"m on that live CD? > > Well, if memory corruption is a possible source of your problems, > you'd better run memtest as Maxim suggested. Some Linux live CDs > contain it anyway, see e.g. Knoppix. > > regards, > Markus > You can also download bootable versions of Memtest. Burn it to a CD or push the image to a flash drive. In either case, it contains a mini-os to make the media boot and run, without need for an actual OS to be present on the system. When I do testing, I use this one: http://www.memtest.org/ There is also another free one, based on same code but forked some time ago: http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm -- Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc.
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