...

Preston Crawford wrote:

...

Does anyone know if either of these have the same problems with Kernel Panic. I've had my daily kernel panic just now while composing a long email. The 9th time in the last couple weeks. I'm so tired of this. It's probably happened to me at least 30 times. It's worse than Windows. I just want to be able to work. Isn't that what I paid $80 for?

in 99% of the cases

stable kernel panic == hardware problem

also

in 90% of the cases

hardware problem == RAM problem

You have a lot of RAM. Did you add any of it lately?

I didn't. I had this much RAM under SuSE 8.0. That's the peculiar thing. I would have had these problems under SuSE 8.0, right?

...

Have you run memtest86?

I didn't until last night. I thought for some stupid reason that it was part of Lilo since it was installed under 8.0, but not under 8.1 (8.1 uses GRUB), but last night I installed it and put it into /boot/grub/menu.lst as an option. I'm running it now. Ran it last night and got some errors. Not exactly sure what to make of them. Is this program reliable enough that if I get errors it's a pretty good chance I do have some bad RAM? Preston