I could tell you the answer to this without even running the tests, but I ran them last night and this morning just to confirm.
And the results are just the same as they always have been in the past. When I run memtest with the ECC parameter disabled in BIOS the result are ZERO problems/errors shown, no matter how long I might run it. However, if I run memtest with the ECC parameter enabled in BIOS the result is just continuous error listing after error listing saying "not- corrrected". What I really don't understand is that I have 2 different computers with just slightly different motherboards and the above happens on BOTH of these computers. One computer is using ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard and the other is using ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard. One computer is using Kingston memory and the other is using Crucial memory. The P4C800 Deluxe has 2 sticks of 512mb, while the P4C800-E Deluxe has 2 sticks of 256mb. Both sets of memory are ECC. But another strange thing is that I have a 3rd computer that is using an older ASUS P4G8X mottherboard and Kingston ECC memory and I have NO problems with these messages being displayed during the booting of Ubuntu or any of the problems as described above when running the Memtest on it. I have talked to Kingston about this a number of times and they and I both agree that it is highly unlikely that I have 2 different sets of memory (from 2 different memory manufacturers) in 2 computers that are both BAD. But I have not undertaken to actually get them or Crucial to send me replacements to verify whether the memory is bad or not. What Kingston and I both think is that 1 of 2 things is occuring. #1), that there is a problem with this series of ASUS motherboards is that the BIOS is not written properly to handle ECC function (my Internet research (I will try to find you a link to this and will post shortly) has seemed to comfirm this possibility) but ASUS vehemently denies that this is the problem and says that instead this is a problem with the Memtest program, in that, it is not written to properly test with the particular chipset that these motherboards are using. However, the fact that Ubuntu seems to not like having the ECC function turn on, seems to contradict this notion. #2) Is as already mentioned, that the Memtest is not properly written to work with the chipset being used by these ASUS motherboards. Just to make ABSOLUTELY sure that this is not a hardware problem with the memory modules themselves, I am going to call Kingston today and see if I can get the process started to get replacement modules. I will post back with the results once I have the results of trying replacement modules. In the mean time, could you let me know if your research confirms that there might be a problem with the ECC function working properly with these particular series of ASUS motherboards or if you have any thoughts on whether this problems still may somehow be related to use of Ubuntu as the operating system. Thanks. -- get error messages at boot if ECC parameter is turn on in BIOS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
