| Mooncairn | 71% through the third pass, no errors so far. I'm planning on letting memtest86 run for at least 8 total passes. | 03:26 |
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| Mooncairn | memtest is on its sixth pass, no errors so far. | 18:43 |
| Mooncairn | The fact that no errors have been found so far despite the memory-related errors I was getting from GNOME isn't comforting. | 18:43 |
| Mooncairn | I'm wondering how I'd diagnose the problem if the memory checks out. | 18:44 |
| Mooncairn | The other sources of the problem (CPU, mainboard, etc.) basically means it's time for a new computer. :-( | 18:45 |
| cmaloney | Ugh | 19:17 |
| cmaloney | It could also be that ECC is correcting the sorts of errors that Memtest is testing | 19:17 |
| cmaloney | Can you turn off ECC? | 19:17 |
| Mooncairn | I don't know. I'll have to look into the BIOS after I end the current test. | 19:24 |
| Mooncairn | No ECC options in the BIOS, just something called "Turbo Memory". | 20:57 |
| Mooncairn | Also, something called PCI Parity. | 20:58 |
| Mooncairn | Actually, no memory options at all. | 20:58 |
| Mooncairn | I disabled those two items just in case and restarted the tests, this time with all 8 virtual cores active. (The previous 28 hours of testing was using a single core.) | 21:03 |
| jrwren | does the chipset and bios support ECC memory? | 23:40 |
| Mooncairn | That's a good question. Memtest is identifying the RAM as ECC, and the computer is an old Lenovo ThinkStation S20, so maybe? | 23:53 |
| Mooncairn | I'd have to try pulling up specs for the computer to be sure. | 23:54 |
| Mooncairn | Oh, the other amusing bit of trivia: Whoever refurbished it put DDR3-1333 ECC memory into a computer with a mainboard that only supports DDR3-1064. | 23:58 |
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