On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:48 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 02/27/2010 05:12 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I was trying to turn ECC on whilst checking some new memory, but it seemed to be ignored. I also tried enabling ECC and then restarting, didn't seem to make any difference. Has anyone else seen this? Not much sense in running a memory test with ECC on??? Hmm, not sure, ECC only copes with single-bit errors - regardless, memtest86+ has the option to turn ECC on and off (except it doesn't seem to work).
Either way, running tests makes sense. Every [??] ECC supporting system has some mechanism to alert/alarm when a memory error occurs and it has to perform a correction. Most often this is a diode/light on the front of the box; sometimes an LED display on the motherboard itself. Pushing the memory system to expose a potentially failing module is worthwhile - a chip with ECC-correctable errors will quite probably promote itself to a chip with non-correctable errors eventually. ECC just gives you heads up that you are headed down that road - without taking down your box. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org