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Thanks so far for everyones advice. I ran memtest last night, but it
failed about 17% through the test. it had not found any errors yet, but
the fail messages said something about unexpected memory or irq. i wish i
had wrote it down now. i will try the test again tonight, but on each
piece of ram seperatley and post the results (if any). also does anyone
know if some options are better than others within the memtest program, or
should i not mess with it and let it do its thing?

i have tried slax and it encounters the same problems, seemingly more so,
i assume because it will be more memory intensive. I am currently running
with half my ram now, since my x server crashed 3 times trying to write
this (so far so good on the one stick). I don't think the problem is with
the x server though because often I encounter the same problems with
programs from the commandline before laoding xfce or kde. I will run the
system on this stick of ram and test it tonight, with results tomorow.
then switch them out. should i also try it with different slots or is that
an issue? I will look into lm_sensors + gkrellm shortly.


i dont have another computer or a spare power supply so that will be
difficult for me to test for. i'll post back with results tomorow.

thanks again for the help and advice,

bst

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