On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:48:07 -0500, D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some errors popped up. On a 512MB SIMM, less than 10 memory cells > where showing a problem, and then only if a specific bit pattern > was written into adjacent cells. The error was always in the > 0x08 bit. I removed the offending SIMM, rebooted and all tests > passed.
Was the magic number of cells 8? I'm wondering if you had a bad "chip" that somehow passed QA, but wasn't in a critical section of memory to corrupt the system. -- Joel Lucsy "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program." -- Larry Niven