Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> It is also notable that memtest86+ is good, but usually not as hard as
>> running real software on the machine is; we have previously had occasional
>> faulty sticks of memory that would run clean for weeks under memtest86+,
>> but would oops within ten minutes on corruption in the Linux MM lists.[1]
>
> The loss of mouse clipboard pasting and a few other annoying glitches
> appeared only on the new system. While that's not proof of cause-and-effect,
> it's presumptive so I'll make arrangements to trade in the two DIMMs for a
> fresh set.
Sorry - I just meant to say that while memtest showing an error *is*
sufficient to prove that a DIMM is faulty, the absence of memtest errors is
*not* sufficient to prove that the DIMM is good. :)
Regards,
Daniel
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