On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:52:47PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > memtest86+ appears to false positive on Dell PowerEdge 2650 machines. > I've tried it on 5 different machines and they all get "memory errors" > within seconds of starting memtest86+ and all in the same memory > location with the same error patterns (e.g. the first is 0x7ffe31c4, > IIRC). memtest86+ will eventually hang the box if left running.
Are you sure they are false positives? Some 2650s have a bug where some area right below the top of the memory (a couple of megabytes, IIRC) has 16 garbled bits if and only if the USB controller is enabled. What's worse, Dell's own memory testing program silently skips this area. This has been known to give real problems on multiple operating systems. Dell is completely silent about this, but people _have_ been getting replacements for these motherboard series by asking Dell. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
