[03:26] <Mooncairn> 71% through the third pass, no errors so far. I'm planning on letting memtest86 run for at least 8 total passes.
[18:43] <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.
[18:44] <Mooncairn> I'm wondering how I'd diagnose the problem if the memory checks out.
[18:45] <Mooncairn> The other sources of the problem (CPU, mainboard, etc.) basically means it's time for a new computer. :-(
[19:17] <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?
[19:24] <Mooncairn> I don't know. I'll have to look into the BIOS after I end the current test.
[20:57] <Mooncairn> No ECC options in the BIOS, just something called "Turbo Memory".
[20:58] <Mooncairn> Also, something called PCI Parity.
[20:58] <Mooncairn> Actually, no memory options at all.
[21:03] <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.)
[23:40] <jrwren> does the chipset and bios support ECC memory?
[23:53] <Mooncairn> That's a good question. Memtest is identifying the RAM as ECC, and the computer is an old Lenovo ThinkStation S20, so maybe?
[23:54] <Mooncairn> I'd have to try pulling up specs for the computer to be sure.
[23:58] <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.