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From: John Rigg <aldev@sound-man.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ice1712 error
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:28:17 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 05:00:43PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >> ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12
> >> Does this mean the card is toast?
> >> What does the -12 mean?
> > 
> > It's ENOMEM, means it failed to allocate some memories.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> There is 4G of RAM in the box.
> I can boot with mem=2048000K and still get the error every like I 
> described. (sometimes it is in error, sometimes it is OK)
> 
> Do I need to remove SIMMs to test?
> 
> What could I do?

You can test your memory in situ with memtest86+
from http://www.memtest.org

John