Re: deciding on a new amd64 system
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:39:15AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
> > I have just seen many posts on this list where people ran memtest, found
> > nothing wrong, but eventually swapped out the ram and their problems
> > went away. memtest is good at telling you if you have a problem, but
> > terrible at telling you that you don't have a problem.
>
> You are probably right. But so far, whenever I've suspected memory
> problems on any of the machines I've tended to and run memtest, it has
> responded positively.
Since the AMDs are so picky on ram, its too bad that AMD hasn't added a
built-in memory tester function to the on-board memory controller.
Something that a simple app could poll, or for that matter that the
board's BIOS couldn't access during the POST memory test.
Doug.
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