On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Shane J Pearson wrote:
On 2006.06.07, at 2:42 PM, Breen Ouellette wrote:
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Telling someone new to memtest86 that it detects bad memory sticks is
misleading and could give them a nice headache if their problem is
not the stick.
If they read the "Troubleshooting Memory Errors" info for memtest86, linked
to from the old site and the new site, they'll see that to isolate the
defective stick, they can remove, rotate or replace modules to see what
device the error follows.
Thanks to you guys and "Troubleshooting Memory Errors", which I had
read, moving the one 512M stick from slot one to slot two has at the
very least made a drastic improvement.
slot 1 - hundreds of errors in memtest which resulted in the box
powering off after ten minutes or so.
slot 2 - eight errors in test 7 of pass 4 of 8 passes. no lock-ups
since.
I appreciate the discussion. On a critical box and with a little more
time, I'd do a thorough series of tests as suggested, and will on this
one soon.
And next time I'll make sure to get "quality" components...
Thanks again for the input,
-- Ian
