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From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Subject: Re: AMD FX CPU bug, not fixed by latest microcode?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:05:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611110557.GA4599@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120611094905.GA10349@liondog.tnic>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:49:05AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:43:18AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:24:13PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> > > I have an AMD FX-8120 boxed CPU in an ASUS M5A99X-EVO mainboard
> > > with 32GB DDR3/1600 memory, running Fedora 17, upgraded from 16.
> > > memtest86+ show no problems.
> 
> Ohe other thing: if there's an option in the BIOS to disable the IOMMU,
> can you do that and try reproducing the issue with IOMMU disabled?

Maybe not related, but I had bad memory in my Intel Core-i5
based system some months ago which resulted in rare crashes,
usually manifested itself as g++ ICEs when compiling a
mid-sized  C++ project -- compiling a kernel with make -p4 showed
no problem.  Also memtest86+ didn't show the issue,
so I tried memtest86-4.0a which claims to find more errors
due to SMP support.  An overnight run left me with a screen
full of garbage and a crashed memtest86-4.0.  I replaced
the RAM anyway and the box was stable since then.

memtest86-4.0a is at
http://memtest86.com/

The page claims:
  With a single CPU it is not possible to drive multi-channel memory
  controllers at full speed making it impossible to detect some types of errors

Maybe someone knowledgable could comment if this is true.


Johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-10 19:24 AMD FX CPU bug, not fixed by latest microcode? Boszormenyi Zoltan
2012-06-11  7:52 ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-06-11  8:13   ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2012-06-11 10:21     ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-06-11 10:57       ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2012-06-11  8:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-11  9:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-11 11:05     ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2012-06-13  7:30       ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2012-06-13 15:57         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-13 18:26           ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2012-06-13 22:06             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-14  4:23               ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-11  3:45 Rus

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