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From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Subject: Re: AMD FX CPU bug, not fixed by latest microcode?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:23:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD96742.9090700@pr.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120613220651.GA12065@liondog.tnic>

2012-06-14 00:06 keltezéssel, Borislav Petkov írta:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:26:07PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> I did exactly that, the remaining two 8GB modules don't have faults
>> according to memtest86+ and the machine is stable with "make -j8" in
>> the kernel tree. Neither thunderbird nor firefox crashed for a day,
>> these are the usual victims when hitting the bad memory address.
> Cool.
>
> I guess you could try to limit it even further by taking a known-good
> 8GB module and pairing it with one of the "bad" ones to see whether one
> of the "bad" 8GB modules is faulty or both of them are.
>
> Or you could stop wasting time and go buy two new ones :-)

Yesterday I took the bad pair back to the shop with a screenshot
showing memtest86+ results and they accepted it for warranty.
I will get a new pair or RAMs for no extra fee.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14  4:23 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
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 [this message]
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2012-06-11  3:45 Rus

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