On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Ed Howland wrote: > On 9/7/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We also ran Dell's own memory diagnostic, which didn't produce any >> errors. > > Just putting on my conspiracy hat here, but doesn't Dell benefit as a > company if their testing system finds fewer errors (i.e. their quality > must be higher?)
We reran the Dell memory program and noticed that it reported the following: 2048 MB installed 2 dimms 2047 MB available via BIOS 2046 MB selected for testing Test 00_00100000-00_7FFEFFFF (2046 MB) Seems like Dell's program is ignoring about 2 MB of RAM. In contrast, memtest is testing more RAM and discovering the error in the higher address, 0007fffdc80 - 2047.8MB. Fair conclusion? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
