On Sep 8, 2006, at 14:25 , Robert Citek wrote:

>
> 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?

Interesting. Do you get the same results on the other box?

-M

 
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