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Hi Kevin, |
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Kevin wrote: |
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> Greg KH thinks it's bad memory, but I'm skeptical of that because the main |
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> address that fails (some 30 times in a row) is at 1023.8MB and the Dell |
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> Utilities only test up to 1022MB, and because I haven't seen the problem |
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> with the liveCD kernel. |
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Although I've very rarely dealt with SMP systems, I've seen many unstable |
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systems being diagnosed by various memory testing utilites as OK. As soon as |
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you run memtest, errors come up, and replacing the faulty memory amazingly |
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brings system stability again. |
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If you RAM is always producing errors in the same place (and only in 1 place) |
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then you might want to google for BadMem/BadRAM. These are two flavours of |
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kernel patches which allow you to ask the kernel to ignore specific blocks of |
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memory. You can even get memtest-x86 to output the exact parameters you need |
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based on memory faults it finds. This should allow you to ignore the faulty |
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part of the memory and continue on with the remaining ~1020mb or so. |
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Daniel |
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