From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:00:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002121500.59056.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100212124330.GB1422@muc.de>
On Friday 12 February 2010 14:43:30 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > failures in b11 of 32 bit words.
> >
> > I'll try unplugging and replugging these.
>
> No help. :-(
>
> No matter how I plug in the RAM (4 combinations of 2 sticks into 2 pairs
> of slots) it is always b11 which fails and always at an address ending
> in (hex) 0 or 8.
>
> How is this DDR3 Ram organised? Is each stick 64 bits wide, or are they
> 32 bits wide, being accessed by the motherboard pairwisely? If the
> latter, I would have exected the failure to move to address ....4 and
> ....C when I swap the two sticks. Am I being prematurely pessimistic in
> thinking the motherboard might be the fault?
I strongly suspect a motherboard fault too. What you are describing sounds
like an address decoding fault.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 8:54 [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 8:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 9:13 ` William Kenworthy
2010-02-12 9:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 9:49 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-02-12 9:56 ` Lewis Handy
2010-02-12 9:57 ` Daniel Wagener
2010-02-12 10:05 ` Roy Wright
2010-02-12 10:10 ` Roy Wright
2010-02-12 10:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 11:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:43 ` [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86 Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:43 ` Dale
2010-02-12 13:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 14:27 ` Dale
2010-02-12 19:25 ` [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 20:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-12 23:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-02-13 17:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-13 22:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 0:08 ` Dale
2010-02-14 0:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 5:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-12 13:00 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-02-12 12:56 ` [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-12 19:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 12:17 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-12 12:33 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-02-12 15:24 ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-12 16:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-13 1:02 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-02-13 1:10 ` Dale
2010-02-13 1:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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