Re: hardware errors
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 09/06/14 11:35, Bzzzz wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector
> > <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure out
> >> which DIMM(s)?
> >
> > Install memtest86+ and boot on it, then leave at least 3 complete
> > cycles to run.
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
> Have created a memtest86+ CD and will try it tomorrow evening (need a
> scheduled time to take it down).
>
> Interestingly, there are no more errors logged for the last day and a
> half ...
>
> Any guesses as to how long these 3 complete cycles will take? It's a
> Sun Fire X2100 M2 (dual core opteron 1218, 2600MHz) with 4G of RAM. I
> haven't run memtest for ages ...
IIRC one complete standard test with my dual-core Athlon 2.1 GHz 4 GiB
RAM takes more than 1 hour. I guess in 1 day it does around 8 complete
tests, perhaps I run it just during the night in half of a day. I might
be mistaken, but you should expect that you need to run it for several
hours.
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