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Thank you Chris, Bret, and Heiko for your replies, both on- and off-list. |
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Your replies all look like good suggestions and I'm going to try them, but |
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first, I have to ask one other thing. |
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As I said earlier in this thread, I found zero errors in an 8 hour |
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exhaustive memory test (using the Dell-provided Utility Partition tests) |
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running 15-16 loops, 4 different tests, and found zero errors from a |
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complete hardware test (also from the Utility Partition). |
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But just on a lark, I decided to try memtest86 3.0 and 3.1a as well, and |
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both are turning up errors all over the place. I'm skeptical that |
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memtest86 is giving me accurate information because (a) it's finding so |
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many, (b) I can't seem to get it to turn on ECC mode (yet the Dell |
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utilities did test this, and the CMOS reports that it is ECC memory), (c) |
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it runs for only 10 seconds or so and begins finding errors, and (d) it |
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locks up after about 2-5 minutes. Last time I ran it, the error count |
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was up to 109 after 5 minutes and then it locked up. |
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Any thoughts on this? |
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Is this bad memory (in spite of the Dell tests all turning up flawless) or |
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is memtest86 getting something wrong (like amount of installed memory to |
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test)? Any way to tell for sure? I've looked at the docs for memtest86 |
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and they talk about the possibility of memtest86 incorrectly determining |
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the amount of memory to test and that seems likely in my case. The first |
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10 or so errors are all at the same address (0003fffdc80) 1023.8MB, then |
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there are 4 or so at 64.0MB, then 1 or 2 at 0.6MB, then it locks up. |
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The Dell utilities report testing only up to 1022MB of memory. |
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Is this a case of memtest86 getting the installed memory count wrong? |
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When I look at the CMOS/BIOS settings, the System memory is 1024MB, and |
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that's what the Dell utilities also report initially, but the tests |
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themselves are only being run on the first 1022MB, according to the test |
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reports. |
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Thanks. |
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-Kevin |
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