On 11/02/2010 05:14 AM, 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?
Just a few weeks ago I had some RAM that showed up with one error in memtest86+. After a couple of runs found the error at the same address, I prepared an RMA and the vendor (G.Skill) promptly replaced it. You can probably "get away" with running RAM that has a small handful of errors, but I don't recommend it. If the RAM is still under warranty, definitely return it. Scott _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
