Bill Barry wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> 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? >> > > Yes, I think you should swap them. There are software fixes you could > use, but why bother if the memory is in warranty. Make sure you get > memory that matches your motherboards specifications. >
I feel some sympathy for the memory manufacturers. I'm sure there are cases where they get blamed when the actual cause is a marginal motherboard design. I'm not saying that's the case here, I'm just pointing out that there are two sides involved. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
