They can't be fixed. I'll take one off your hands... ----------------------------------- James G. Louis Information Technologist lcojiml at iwon.com http://bounce.to/bizindawishin --- On Thu 03/04, Patrick McCabe < patrickm at citilink.com > wrote: From: Patrick McCabe [mailto: patrickm at citilink.com] To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:34:18 -0600 Subject: [TCLUG] Memory problems I inherited 5 identical computers, Pentium III 800 MHZ. They were used <br>as windows workstations by the company next door that went belly-up. My <br>plan has been to load Linux on them and replace our windows file servers.<br><br>The problem is that I ran memtest86 and they ALL fail. The memtest <br>documentation talks about false positives, so I thought memtest just <br>didn't play well with this system. I tried loading Linux (Mandrake 9.2) <br>on a few of them. One install complained of a memory problem, but two <br>succeeded and seem to work ok. However, when I copied a .5 gig file <br>across the network, it came across corrupted.<br><br>How can this be? These computers have been used apparently successfully <br>for at least a couple years. I have tested the memory chips in other <br>systems and they all pass; I have put new memory in these systems and <br>they all fail.<br><br>Things I have tried so far:<br>-Swap memory chips<br>-Set bios to fail-safe defaults<br>-Twiddle various bios entries that deal with ram<br><br>Should I just write these guys off, or is there something I can do to <br>fix this?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Patrick McCabe<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org<br>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list