Hi everybody.
This morning my computer, running 18.04, froze when watching a video. It froze to the point of having to hard-reboot. When rebooting, a message of "uncompression error - system halted" appeared. I tried a couple of times with the same result (even with older kernels) and finally resolved to run MemTest86 to see if there was some problem. Well, it found some 32000 errors in almost 2 hours of checking my 4Gb of RAM (two DDR3-2Gb-modules). Since it was the first time for me running these tests and didn't know quite much what to make of them, after the 120 minutes I got tired and choose to exit and reboot again. To my surprise, the system initiated normally with no errors and it seems to be working OK by now, almost four hours later.
My questions are:
1- Is the "uncompression error" usually related to RAM problems or can it be also related to HDD issues or some other thing?
2-Should I worry about those 32000 errors detected by MemTest86 or can they be somehow temporary? Maybe I should start thinking of getting new RAM modules?
Thanks in advance!
This morning my computer, running 18.04, froze when watching a video. It froze to the point of having to hard-reboot. When rebooting, a message of "uncompression error - system halted" appeared. I tried a couple of times with the same result (even with older kernels) and finally resolved to run MemTest86 to see if there was some problem. Well, it found some 32000 errors in almost 2 hours of checking my 4Gb of RAM (two DDR3-2Gb-modules). Since it was the first time for me running these tests and didn't know quite much what to make of them, after the 120 minutes I got tired and choose to exit and reboot again. To my surprise, the system initiated normally with no errors and it seems to be working OK by now, almost four hours later.
My questions are:
1- Is the "uncompression error" usually related to RAM problems or can it be also related to HDD issues or some other thing?
2-Should I worry about those 32000 errors detected by MemTest86 or can they be somehow temporary? Maybe I should start thinking of getting new RAM modules?
Thanks in advance!
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