Manuel Boyer wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:42:01PM -0700, Paul Newhouse wrote:
>> Manuel,
>> 
>> If you mean this:
>> 
>>   MemTest-86 v3.1a
>> 
>> from the packages?
>
>There are 2 tools:
>http://www.memtest86.com/
>and
>http://www.memtest.org/
>
>I think the second one is the more advanced.

I used the memtest from the 2.0.2 packages.  The free machine has just
jumped from $0 to the cost of new memory (and some of my free time :).  
(Hmmm, how much to I trust this piece of junk to be firewall machine???)

Memtest is puking all over a section of memory.  It seems to drop a bit.
Looks like it's a 4 or 8Meg chunk.

It appears that you diagnosed the problem pretty acurately, thanks.

Paul