-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 09:32 AM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 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. It does happen that a marginal or slightly flaky motherboard design can cause intermittent memory errors. I think it's happening on my desktop. I built this with a motherboard that a friend gave me that someone else didn't want, and this might be why. I have one of the first edition Asus Crosshair motherboards with 2x 1GB DDR2 800Mhz DIMMs of Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory. Crucial replaced those twice under the lifetime warranty because they wouldn't even POST. (The Crucial memory was cheap, I think I paid about $30 for both DIMMs, and that's the only reason I ended up with such gamer bling RAM sticks.) The second time it sent me newer 2V DIMMs to replace the 2.2V originals and I haven't had any further POST errors with these sticks since then. However, every few days to few weeks, I'm getting random memory errors, which don't seem to follow any specific pattern. In memtest86+ testing it sometimes fails fairly quickly and sometimes later during block move tests. Maybe the memory is degrading, but I suspect that it's actually a slightly flaky motherboard design, maybe the Nvidia controller chips. Every time I get these memory errors, turning off the system for awhile then rebooting seems to resolve the problem, then memtest86+ runs fine. I doubt that this is the sort of problem Rich is having, but it happens. I agree that Rich should exchange the memory, and that'll likely fix it. However I'm probably looking for a new motherboard, and some ECC memory. Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzQboAACgkQ+qYMIUkNJCwOgACfdMosaMJ3CyVjfcQ3jWdLjyRg zy4AoKZEzPCfFA2oJqlqqFdsXl4B+kbr =PZh6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
