On 03/19/2011 05:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Very odd, in general the "correct" places allow two bank operation, which
> speeds
> operation by some "measurable but not noticeable" bit. Unusual, but I don't
> doubt you, some vendor may have cut the odd corner.
You are talking about "Dual Chann
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I did have a server machine at work with a gazillion different
> banks of memory which memtest86+ constantly said had memory errors
> even though everything seemed to work fine.
>
> At some point, someone noticed that the memory wasn't plugged into
> the different banks in the
Tom Horsley wrote:
> I did have a server machine at work with a gazillion different
> banks of memory which memtest86+ constantly said had memory errors
> even though everything seemed to work fine.
>
> At some point, someone noticed that the memory wasn't plugged into
> the different banks in th
I did have a server machine at work with a gazillion different
banks of memory which memtest86+ constantly said had memory errors
even though everything seemed to work fine.
At some point, someone noticed that the memory wasn't plugged into
the different banks in the recommended symmetric configur
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 03:38:10PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> compdoc wrote:
>
> >> Can memtest86 actually throw up errors on good modules?
> >
> >
> > I run memtest86+ on every computer I service. Memory errors are rare, but
> > they do happen and the computer tends to crash, etc. when they
compdoc wrote:
>> Can memtest86 actually throw up errors on good modules?
>
>
> I run memtest86+ on every computer I service. Memory errors are rare, but
> they do happen and the computer tends to crash, etc. when they are
> happening.
>
> If memtest was finding errors on good modules, which ar
> Can memtest86 actually throw up errors on good modules?
I run memtest86+ on every computer I service. Memory errors are rare, but
they do happen and the computer tends to crash, etc. when they are
happening.
If memtest was finding errors on good modules, which are installed in
computers that d
I recently had a problem on an ancient Dell Inspiron 610 laptop
(my wife's work machine). I solved the problem,
but I had wondered at one point if the RAM was faulty.
So I re-booted the machine with a Fedora-14/KDE Live CD in,
and booted into memtest86+ .
This threw up hundreds of errors.
I took t
