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 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
