25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
3:47 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
The only surefire RAM check is MemTest86 left for a
few hours
in "burn in" mode.
You can't trust this 100%. We had a problem with a SuperMicro board; database
kept getting scrambled occaisionally. Ran memtest86 on burn-in mode for 24
hours -- never found a problem -- boot back into the OS and bam, scrambled data
again. When we replaced one of the memory sticks as a last ditch effort, it
fixed the problem.
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