Lainaus Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:14:09AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, yesterday I ran the memtest86+ utility and indeed it showed some errors > on > > the test 5 of the test series (but the test 8 showed no errors). > >
> > What do you guys think? Can I be relatively certain that it's infact the > memory > > modules that are just not compatible with amd64 + VIA K8T800 cobination? I > think > > I'm going to replace the ram since when I bought it I was going for some > "abit > > approved" memory, but the seller convinced me that "this is as good but > cheaper" :) > > > Well I bought kingston value ram DDR400 512M * 2 for the athlon64 I > built and it works. I have had good luck with kingston and crucial > personally. I don't bother to "save" $10 per 512M anymore by getting > the generic stuff. The last generic stuff I bought was a PC100 CL2 > 256M and it never did run stable faster than CL3 (so much for their > claim). > Well, just an update in my quest-for-a-stable-and-fast-debian-amd64-system :) I went and replaced the memory modules yesterday to Kingston value ram. Better, but not perfect. It's actually strange. I first booted the machine and it reported some CMOS error...I then realised that the bios (and later memtest86) reports the memory as DDR 333, although the packages in which I received the memory said DDR 400? Anyhow, I set up the DRAM timings to DDR 333 in bios, and after that it booted, ran memtest86 and even kernel compile + copying of a large directory of files + watching a video *all at the same time* without problems ...yes, the last one was a psychologically important... :) So, now I can be 100% certain that it was memory incompatibility, just as you guys said! But I wont settle for DDR 333...out of principle I want to make this perfect now that I've started the war ;) So it's back to store for me, they recomended Buffalo memory yesterday, maybe I'll give that a shot... Thanks guys, I'm one step closer... juhis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
