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From: Joseph <syscon@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] A8V motherboard defective ?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 00:26:16
Message-Id: 1148947298.12793.73.camel@sysconcept.ca
1 I have an A8V motherboard and I suspect the it is defective or just the
2 memory bus is defective, any input will be appreciated.
3
4 The A8V has two DIMM memory banks (running Linux AMD64):
5 A1 A2 B1 B2
6 I have 2x 512 DIMM's (same modules Kensington KVR) on banks: A1 and B1
7 Originally I suspected memory chip as it was giving me a headache from
8 the start, I could barely install Gentoo on it. I run Memorytest86
9 couldn't find much; I run Red Hat memory test script, it hang up so it
10 indicated hardware problem.
11 I replaced both memory sticks and I was able to install Gentoo but still
12 at
13 time to time compiling exit with an error indicating some hardware
14 problem when I'm trying to compile a larger piece of code.
15 Today, I've tried to compile "qt" and it constantly keep giving me an
16 error, exiting with an error. Rebooting PC didn't help.
17 I removed one memory stick (running only on one in B1) and it compiled
18 just fine and it keeps compiling, I swap memory sticks (replacing the
19 one in
20 B1 with the one I removed from A1) still running on one memory stick and
21 it keeps compiling just fine, no errors. So it would indicate the
22 memory sticks are OK.
23
24 Should I suspect the motherboard?
25
26 --
27 #Joseph
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[gentoo-user] Re: A8V motherboard defective ? Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>