Vahe Avedissian wrote:
----- Original Message ---- From: Randall R Schulz
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:59:02 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] bizzare memtest behavior On Thursday 24 April 2008 22:35, Vahe Avedissian wrote:
Folks,
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I have 6x1GB sticks in my machine ...
By the way, when posting a question of this sort (low-level, hardware-oriented), you really should outline your hardware configuration. Tell us which CPU, which chipset and / or which mainboard manufacturer and model you're using.
Vahe
Randall Schulz
Yes, I am aware of the newer release of memtest 2.01+ and have downloaded it and will run it shortly. The interesting thing is I first tried running with 8GB ram (8x 1GB) and memtest was running tests at addresses ABOVE 8GB. With 6GB it runs at addresses above 6GB. I orignally had 4GB of ram and it always behaved correctly and everything passed. I suspect someone the 4GB limit was tripping it up. I assume this latest version will do better.
My hardware is a tyan k8we (S2895) with 2 opterons and 2GB in each each cpu ram bank (for total of 4GB).
Vahe
I have run 2.01 with an opteron 180 with no problems. I suspect the earlier versions of memtest couldn't handle the 'on board cpu' memory controller with the opterons. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org