New RAM boots system into termianl not GUI

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#1

Hi there,

I went and bought a new 2GB dim of RAM for my laptop yesterday, and after taking out the old 1GB dim and booting up, I found that I could only boot into terminal mode, and could not get to the GUI…

I have run the built-in RAM check on my HP laptop, and it passes all checks, but have not as of yet tried the RAM in another machine.

Is there something that I am missing? Do I need to type in a command to update the RAM reading in KDE?

If I put my old 1GB dim back in I can boot up normally into the KDE GUI.

I am running:
Opensuse 11.1 64-bit
KDE 4.1.3 release 4.10.4
Kernel: 2.6.27.23-0.1-defaultx86_64
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 1,9GHz
ATI Graphics: ATI Radeon X1200 Series (2.1.8543)

If I boot into safe mode it just hangs…

Dredger

#2

You shouldn’t be missing anything…

What happens if you type startx from the terminal? I can only presume that the ram is faulty, but far from all knowing here. The fact it hangs in safe mode is also strange.

Perhaps run the memory test from the install media.

#3

Thanks… I will give it a bash and let you know.

#4

> I have run the built-in RAM check on my HP laptop, and it passes all
> checks, but have not as of yet tried the RAM in another machine.

sure sounds like faulty RAM to me…

put the install CD/DVD in and check the memory with that…let it run
over night, at least!! 15 or 24 hours is better than 10.

–
brassy