Re: memtest

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 02:22, Sanzo Miyazawa wrote:
> >From arnd@arndb.de Sat Nov  1 20:06:23 2003
> >>
> >> I tried to use "memtest" on opteron 244 with 4 GB memory, tyan main board.
> >>
> >> Every time I got the error message like the following.
> >>
> >> Then I recompiled sysutils_1.3.8.5.1 in 64bits mode.
> >>
> >> But still similar error messages are printed.
> >>
> >> Does this mean real memory errors or is there a bug in this program?
> >
> >Maybe you can try running memtest86, which is similar to memtest but is 
> >started directly from lilo without linux underneath.
> >If that gives you the same results, it's likely that you have a hardware
> >problem.
> >
> 
> I runned memtest86 on opteron + 4GB + tyan k8s s2880.
> 
> Many errors like the following were printed.
> 
> =================
> 
> Chipset
> 
> 				cache	ECC	Test	Errors	Ecc error
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 				on	off	std	842	0
> 
> 
> Tst	Pass	Failing Address		Good	 Bad	  Err-Bits	Count	Chan
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 4	2	0007209d628 - 18248MB	fffffbff 00000400 ffffffff	1
> 			...
> 			...
> 					00080000 fff7ffff ffffffff
> 					00040000 fffbffff ffffffff
>					  00020000 fffdffff ffffffff

Might it be because AMD64 is just different enough to throw a low
level utility out of whack?

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