On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:39:15AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > > I have just seen many posts on this list where people ran memtest, found > > nothing wrong, but eventually swapped out the ram and their problems > > went away. memtest is good at telling you if you have a problem, but > > terrible at telling you that you don't have a problem. > > You are probably right. But so far, whenever I've suspected memory > problems on any of the machines I've tended to and run memtest, it has > responded positively.
Since the AMDs are so picky on ram, its too bad that AMD hasn't added a built-in memory tester function to the on-board memory controller. Something that a simple app could poll, or for that matter that the board's BIOS couldn't access during the POST memory test. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
