On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > >> I should add that this seems to say that memtest86 crashed not that >> it reported you have bad memory. > > Bill, > > Certainly looks that way. > > I replaced memtest86 with memtest86+. It ran all night (was in the > 13th pass when I stopped it). In the first pass 8 errors were > detected; no additional ones found. > > What is considered an acceptable error number? The 8 found here > seems high to me, but I know the areas are very tightly packed on > the silicon. > > Should I swap these for a new pair?
IMO, even a single memory error means the underlying DIMM (or whatever) should be swapped out. memtest86+ should run completely clean. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
