I recently ran into something like this. Exactly the same symptoms. Intel motherboard with pc2100. Ended up being the motherboard itself. I kept hanging on the same test, between 2% and 8% completion. The test did run to 100% if I ESC out before the first test runs, and manually select that test to run by itself. Might be worth a try. I also tested the memory and processor in a second motherboard, and they checked out ok. Same processor and memory are running fine in the new motherboard. Good Luck. --- Gregory Avedissian <gma2004@verizon.net> wrote:
I'm testing some DDR ram (one pc2100 and one pc2700) in a dell 4500s (1.8GHz Intel) and memtest hangs on the second test - Address Test, Own Address, No Cache.
I've tested the sticks together and separately, and the same thing happens. The test just stops after a minute or two, with no error messages and loss of keyboard control. Tested one stick in a different computer, and it tests fine. It's a brand new memory chip.
The Dell seems to run slower than I'd expect for a 1.8GHz with 384MB RAM. I especially noticed it when I was installing software from source packages - it went a lot slower than on my 1.2GHz Athlon with 500MB of pc133. Other than that, it seems to run ok.
Here are my questions: Is it obviously the cpu? Is there any linux software that will test the cpu similar to what memtest does with memory? Any suggestions for diagnosing this problem?
Thanks, Greg
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