bad ram?

[blobaugh]

I was trying to get knoppix running off cd and it kept saying it could not find the filesystem and after fiddling with it for a while i realized that knoppix uses the ram to load it, so I ran memtest and here is what i got:

badram=0x13231e84,0xfffffffc,0x13231e84,0xfffffffc ,......and that just gets repeated for a while.

Does this mean my ram stick is bad? And is there anything I can do to try to fix it

[blobaugh]

interestingly enough, dsl boots just fine off cd

[bsm2001]

How much ram do you have in the system. afaik this does look like a bad stick. I had one that gave simular results with MEMTEST86 and replaced it everything was fine after that.

[blobaugh]

here is another interesting development. dsl loaded fine but it didnt have the tools i wanted so i downloaded the new one which is really quite nice. i think i may use it for a while. both booted. so i stuck the knoppix cd back it and it has booted fine now as well.

[Landy]

Personally, what I would do is open up your PC, look for your RAM, take it out, swap them around (if you have more then one stick) and try and blow any dust that may be in the slots out. The proper way is using a can of compressed air, but if you can blow out of your mouth without spitting, that should do ;)

[StarKnight83]

Id make sure that the ram was seated properly in their sockets

[gehidore]

Originally posted by blobaugh
I was trying to get knoppix running off cd and it kept saying it could not find the filesystem and after fiddling with it for a while i realized that knoppix uses the ram to load it, so I ran memtest and here is what i got:

badram=0x13231e84,0xfffffffc,0x13231e84,0xfffffffc ,......and that just gets repeated for a while.

Does this mean my ram stick is bad? And is there anything I can do to try to fix it

Tell me this isn't the 1GB stick you got from me...

[blobaugh]

gehidore, it very much is. its not that crap from will

Landy and StarKnight83, did all that.

It was still having that error till i ran memtest, then i turned it off and put in dsl to see what would happen, now everything boots again

[gehidore]

Originally posted by blobaugh
gehidore, it very much is. its not that crap from will

blobaugh, that ram may be at its end. :( Although I did run memtest before we swapped, so It was good.

[Ehwaz001]

Odd, but couldn't it be that a bad burned Knoppix distro produces those faulty errors. When you boot into Knoppix, you can just press enter to boot a standard kernel, but you can also use a set of commands as well. I think one command "testcd" lets you test the integrity of the burned CD.

If the integrity isn't 100%, it could cause the errors...
And if that doesn't help, try switching the stick of RAM with a different one or remove one stick and leave the other in, replace them,... and see what happens.

[Landy]

Also though, Knoppix fills much more ram then DSL, so it might not be hitting the addresses.

[blobaugh]

its not a bad disk cause two of them of different versions did the same thing. im not too worried about it right now as long as the error doesn't come back. besides, im using the new dsl and loving it. i may even install it on the hd