Fedora Hardware :: Memory Test Passes But It Breaks Before Finishing?
Jun 24, 2011
I've got this really weird problem and I'm not even sure if it is a problem. I recently upgraded the RAM on my Compaq Presario Laptop from 3GB to 4GB by swapping out a 1GB DDR to a 2GB DDR so now it contains two 2GB DDRs. The BIOS shows 4096 MB of memory, Fedora shows 3955MB (Probably after the reduction for the video memory) so that's fine.
But I noticed a very quick flash during boot in between the Compaq Screen and GRUB. It only started coming after the RAM upgrade. I'm not able to make out what exactly is written. It's too fast. Will try with a proper camera at home. In any case, I could make out some large number probably in the order of gigabytes written in bytes. Again, not sure of the exact value.
So I get a little curious about this message and decide to run a memory test. It's working perfectly. Around 74%, it stops and says Memory Test Passed and moves on to check the HDD. I try the same from the BIOS. In the BIOS, it's a progress bar and no percentage value mentioned. Though the BIOS says 4096MB of memory, the progress bar also stops at roughly 75% and says passed. I'm not even sure what to search for on Google though I tried and got no similar results.
why this is happening? Since it's stopping at 75%, I have a feeling that the change in the amount of RAM hasn't been made in some place by the system.
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The memory is
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and the board is
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Code:
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Installing MySQL system tables...
100315 20:07:27 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/mosty.lower-test
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