Hardware :: What Would Be A Failure After Running Memtest86
Mar 6, 2009
I have been having trouble with one of my computers.It is a AMD 1800+ with 512 megs of PC2100 high density ram.I am running chrunchbang linux 8.10.2.The problems I am running into is programs freeze, slow way down, or quit out right.The screen saver looks as if it running in slow motion.I had read somewhere that bad memory could cause some of these problems. So I ran memtest86 from the boot menu.After it had ran for about an hour.It did one pass and it said I had about 300 errors.That is about I could understand from all the information listed.
What would be considered bad ram.What is an acceptable number of errors. I have 384 megs of low density (3x128) sticks that I can put back in the machine. Just don't want to dig the machine and ram out if I don't need to.
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Mar 26, 2010
While running the update manager my system froze and all that I knew to do was power down and power up again. When I first started the update said 18.5 MB and on restart it said 17.x MB. I restarted the update manager and it failed with errors.
The last message says "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover:" but no progress in 1/2 hour. If I try to copy the messages to the clipboard it says that cntl-c will abort the operation so I haven't done that. From the top of the "Details" there are about eight "Invalid archive signature" messages. I don't know how to proceed.
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Jun 24, 2010
I am having a problem with my Fedora11, I am not sure wether it is software or hardware but this looks serious. My computer is running very slow and freezes up every few seconds. Every time I reboot I would get a kernel failure pop-up.
This is what the message says:
Kernel failure message 1:
Kernel failure message 2:
Call Trace:
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Jul 25, 2010
I've been trying to run Memtest86+ ,4.0 and 4.1, first from the boot option and then from a bootable CD but it will not run for some reason. I get to the blue screen where my system stats are displayed, but on the top right where the test should be running there's nothing showing. I'm at a loss and need to test my memory as 10.04 has some random crashing on my machine.
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May 16, 2010
I install 10.04 on a Windows laptop using Wubi. It worked! However, I have no memtest86+ option on my menu. I am going to get some more memory soon so I would like to have that feature on my boot menu. Went through this article [URL] Yes, memtest86+ is installed, has the +x flag on the appropriate file, and all the pieces are present. Ran sudo update-grub and it shows it finding everything except memtext86+.
I'm at a loss at what to do now. If this was the old Grub, I suppose I could manually code in the memtest86+ line but since this is Grub 2, that wouldn't be a permanent fix.
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Jul 20, 2010
Anyone know how to run memtest86+ from the Ubuntu 10.04 install CD without having to install Ubuntu? It used to be a menu option at boot, but now you just get the option to install or try Ubuntu. I want to test the RAM on an older system before I install.
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Apr 7, 2010
I need to check RAM on a server located in a data center several hundred miles away. So, I can't just walk over and boot to CD to run memtest86. Is it safe to run this while booted into the OS? Does anyone know of a knoppix pxe boot image? I can network boot to something...I just don't know what to network boot to.
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May 27, 2011
I have a box running Ubuntu 11.04 (natty). I have never run memetest before. Then, randomly, when starting up today, it ran memtest. Because memtest86+ is on a loop, it doesn't stop unless you stop it. So I tried restarting the machine - no good. It simply starts memtest again and runs the same testing loop. I cannot find any setting in the BIOS to disable memtest. how I can stop/disable memtest so I can USE my computer??
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May 28, 2011
Has Linux some mechanism to test memory online as a background job, flag bad memory as unusable and warn the user if memory is faulty? Much like running Memtest86+ on a little chunk of memory every nth minutte until all memory is tested and then repeat over.
Edit: I did not make it clear that I want such a service running in the kernel. A (peak) performance hit should be avoided by running the test in small steps and only when the system have some CPU cycles to spare
Edit2: I meant this as a Linux kernel service that scans the memory in the background. Not meant to be run in userspace but a routine in the kernel itself, perhaps in the memory manager to make sure memory are sane!
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May 1, 2010
I upgraded my 9.10 Ubuntu install last night using the Update Manager, everything downloaded fine, and appeared to install correctly. When it finished I got the message advising that my machine needed to reboot for changes to take effect. I checked my mail quickly before rebooting, and then let it do its thing. It shut down fine, then booted up and went into MemTest86. No real worries, so I wandered off expecting it to take 10-20 minutes. After 4 hours, though, I was starting to worry. A message at the bottom of the screen advised something along the lines that the test had been successful, and I could press Escape to exit.
I did, and my machine rebooted, and went back into MemTest86. I just figured I was being too impatient and left the test running all night. My machine has now been running MemTest86 for 16 hours, and while the timer is still running and the tests refreshing, my keyboard is not responding.
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May 7, 2011
recently performed an upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10. when I rebooted, my GRUB menu showed only the memtest86+ option, rather than the usual options for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch, and WinXP (which I haven't booted in a very long time, so I am almost 100% sure that it is not WinXP's fault. I was able to boot using a Live CD, and when I checked grub.cfg, all of my boot entries were still there. However, when GRUB itself actually loads, only memtest86+ is in the menu. I also checked that I can still boot by editing the memtest86+ option in grub so that it matched the entry for Ubuntu in grub.cfg, and it still booted correctly. However, I am curious as to why my GRUB is now forcing me to manually enter the boot entry on each boot. Here is my grub.cfg:
Code:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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Mar 10, 2010
When I start ubuntu, memtest86+ work to testing memery... Nothing else show up.... just blue screen with testing. I can't log in to ubuntu I don't no how to fix that I tried to use live cd to edit grub, but no grub at all. maybe because i do something wrong from this answer: [URL]...
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Jun 17, 2011
I am having memory problems on my old Compaq PC, and am trying to run memtest86+-4.20 to check it. I downloaded the source file, and tried a compile, but had the following problem:
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how to get around this issue?
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Feb 6, 2010
I'm stuck in Memtest86, everytime i boot it gives me an option to go into BIOS, and then it says "Loading GRUB." After that it automaticly goes into memtest, and I've let it finish numerous times without giving me errors. I've installed Linux Mint 8 via Unetbootin, I have a nearly fresh install of windows 7 on my laptop.
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Nov 18, 2010
I have had no problems with downloading/installing updates and programs, and everything worked fine. Until memtest came along. It ran by itself (I think my dad made it the first boot option in grub), and now if I try to install any packages or programs, it will either say "Grub installation failed" or that any packages I tried to install failed. If I removed memtest, would that make it possible for me to install stuff again? Or is there a way to work around it?the main error report I get is: "E: memtest86+: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127"
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May 11, 2010
I have a Wubi installation of Ubuntu 9.10 and am trying to upgrade to 10.04. The download of everything went fine, but it has stuck on the "installing the upgrades" part, about halfway through it keeps saying "Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic". It keep repeating this constantly. The status bar says "Preparing memtest86+" with about 14 minutes remaining.
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May 22, 2011
I just recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my computer. Everything worked fine at first and then I started to fix all things I wanted to have on my laptop, programs and layout etc. And then I decided to restart the computer to make all the updates and installations work properly on my newly installed Ubuntu computer, but then it seems so that everything just crashed. When I started to computer again a blue screen saying "Memtest86 v4.10" came up. It is some sort of test of the computer's capacity I think. So I thought, ok fine, it is probably really good to do a test like that after a new installation. Like, standard procedure perhaps. It took 1 hour and then it said that no errors could be found on the computer and that I could click ESC to continue.
I did that but then when the computer restarted this blue screen showed up AGAIN and started up a new test (the same one)!!! I can't open up Ubuntu, I've tried several times. What should I do??? Is my computer broken now????
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Jun 5, 2011
Upgrade from 10.10 -> 11.04 froze at "Setting up memtest86+".I haven't had any problems with 10.10, but I decided to do a Dist. Upgrade from the Update Manager, and I seem to be stuck at Installing Upgrades section of the update, specifically at this point:
Setting up busybox-static (1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) ...
Setting up dmidecode (2.9-1.2build1) ...
Setting up ed (1.5-1) ...
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Aug 22, 2010
Just got back to attempting to play with 10.04 using its Live CD. It consistently goes to the "Log In" page and not the Live CD page on running. I saw a Post specifying a F key to be pressed on boot-up to get to the desired starting point some time ago, but did not write it down. Some advice did say press Any Key but this does not seem to do the job. Tried to use the search function here but no joy. Can anyone remember which F key? Note that as a check, I tried to use 9.10 Live CD and this worked fine, so it is not a machine problem.
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Jul 19, 2009
After "yum install emacs" & "yum install emacs-ess", I was able to install emacs on my X86_64 running Fedora 10.
If I run one session of emacs everything works fine.
Once I start a second session and try to resize or move the emacs window, the system stops responding.
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Dec 25, 2010
Hi. I have Ubuntu 10.04, nm-applet is running in the background, my battery icon and sound icon are showing but my network icon has been missing for the past 2 days. It was working fine before but now it's not. How can I fix this issue if I don't have an ethernet cord? Is there a way to roll back the recent updates or do I need to reinstall my network manager?
I've tried restarting the system and I've tried killing nm-applet and reloading it using Alt F2. I get some Debug error.
When I try to run nm-applet --sm-disable
It says an instance is already running and then gives me a warning.
I tried removing "iface eth0 inet dhcp" from /etc/network/interfaces and then tried restarting by "sudo /etc/initi.d/networking restart"
It says:
What can I do to connect to the internet? I have a flash stick if its possible to download a .deb package on this mac and transfer it over to my other laptop to fix the problem. If its possible.
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Aug 6, 2010
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Mar 19, 2010
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Apr 5, 2011
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