Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 18:18:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Is 10.3 i386 jinxed ? Message-ID: <20160503181839.2aacad7e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP2101D0F5AB8E190FC0ACF0F67A0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU436-SMTP151A41CC0BE118F82C0C189F6660@phx.gbl> <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de> <5724604D.3020804@hotmail.com> <BLU436-SMTP10004EAA9AA9F6D830DF24CF6670@phx.gbl> <20160430203426.a9d5841b.freebsd@edvax.de> <5725CF38.4090007@hotmail.com> <572752E2.2040708@hotmail.com> <BLU436-SMTP2101D0F5AB8E190FC0ACF0F67A0@phx.gbl>
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On Tue, 3 May 2016 21:37:36 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > I found what is the problem, with the help of Ultimate Boot CD. UBCD > says the video memory is corrupt. Ha! As assumed, it looked too much like hardware error... > Does that mean I have to trash the > entire laptop, or is there some way to replace the video memory ? Depends. There are laptops where the GPU memory is allocated from the installed memory modules that serve as RAM. Other models have dedicated chips for the GPU which are independent. In such a case, you probably cannot replace them. But if it's the first case mentioned, exchange the RAM modules. The memtest results usually are "false-negative" because the GPU memory is already "cut off" from the cells available as regular RAM, so those do not get tested. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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