On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:03:06AM -0800, Karl Cunningham wrote:
Typical users will put in 1GB of RAM and if they get windows xp to run (out
of the box using only first 150MB of RAM) they declare it a success. No
tests of memory (other than POST), temperature stress, CPU loading, etc. So
far they haven't tested very much of the functionality of the board.
Failures after this are usually chocked up to user error or software bugs.
Amazing what people will put up with, "Y'know I never could get that to
work right."
I recommend at least memtest to anyone who buys a cheap MB or computer. A
lot of them don't pass the first time.
I've only have one memory failure that showed up in memtest, and it was a
real RAM failure.
Most of my other memory problems showed up in the "standard linux memory
test", e.g., compiling a kernel. If gcc segfaults, you've got memory
problems.
Another common memory test is to create a reiserfs partition and see how
badly it corrupts itself.
Dave
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