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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: orion@cora.nwra.com (Orion Poplawski)
Cc: scott@thomasons.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reliable hardware
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:33:47 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212111633.gBBGXlki008160@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DF76302.7040503@cora.nwra.com> from "Orion Poplawski" at Dec 11, 2002 09:08:34 AM

> >>Random lockups on dual athlons are a notorious problem under all
> >>OS's. Start by checking it passes memtest86, that will verify the
> >>RAM is ok - and the AMD is -very- picky about RAM.
> >>
> >>If thats ok then let me know which board you have, what is plugged
> >>into it and what PSU you are using.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I have two AMD MP 2000+ cpus in an ASUS A7M266-D. Even after returning 
> >my memory for new chips the store owner memtest86'd, my combo of cpus 
> >and mobo was finding the occasional error. I finally ended up 
> >resolving it by simply underclocking the bus about 6Mhz :( 
> >
> >Next time, I'm buying ECC memory.

Why?  ECC memory guards against a single bit error in the RAM, nothing
else, (except that it also reports double bit errors).

John.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-10 17:49 Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1 Orion Poplawski
2002-12-10 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11  2:00   ` scott thomason
2002-12-11 16:08     ` Reliable hardware Orion Poplawski
2002-12-11 16:33       ` John Bradford [this message]
2002-12-11 17:01       ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 17:21         ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-12-11 23:35         ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-12-12  1:24           ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 16:10     ` Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1 Orion Poplawski
2002-12-11 23:00   ` Orion Poplawski

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