Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:44 -0700, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running
> windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really
> unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install
> debian on it. However, just to check, I ran memtest86 on it, to check
> the ram. Result: lots of errors between 14 and 17 mb.
> Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting new ram
> for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it may need
> special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do...
take a look at http://www.crucial.com - either put you computer
make/model in or try their "Belarc Advisor".
'fraid I can't answer how to get Debian GNU/Linux to ignore part of RAM
(isn't that a BIOS thing?)
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