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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>>>> Hi, Gentoo, |
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>>>> My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. |
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>>>> The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst |
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>>>> emerging the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging |
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>>>> Openbox instead. |
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>>>> Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, |
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>>>> I know there's a binary for this). |
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>>> everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, |
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>>> especially RAM closely followed by PSU. |
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>> Yes, you're right. :-( |
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>> When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of |
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>> failures in b11 of 32 bit words. |
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>> I'll try unplugging and replugging these. |
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> No help. :-( |
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> No matter how I plug in the RAM (4 combinations of 2 sticks into 2 pairs |
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> of slots) it is always b11 which fails and always at an address ending |
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> in (hex) 0 or 8. |
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> How is this DDR3 Ram organised? Is each stick 64 bits wide, or are they |
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> 32 bits wide, being accessed by the motherboard pairwisely? If the |
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> latter, I would have exected the failure to move to address ....4 and |
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> ....C when I swap the two sticks. Am I being prematurely pessimistic in |
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> thinking the motherboard might be the fault? |
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>>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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>> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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Sounds to me like the mobo may have issues. If swapping the ram around |
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doesn't move the error, then the chips on the mobo that connect to the |
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ram may be bad. |
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I would still rule out power issues if you can. A bad power supply, or |
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a weak one, can cause some pretty weird problems. |
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Hmmm, I would also try putting in two sticks, then running the test and |
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seeing what that says. If it still errors, try the other two sticks. |
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If it still fails in the same place, see if you can put the sticks in |
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the other two slots. Some mobos don't care what slot you have them in. |
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May want to refer to the manual on that. |
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Let's hope for something simple and cheap. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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