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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vahe Avedissian wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 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,
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > 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.

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