[PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Bill Barry wrote:
>
>> I should add that this seems to say that memtest86 crashed not that 
>> it reported you have bad memory.
>
> Bill,
>
>   Certainly looks that way.
>
>   I replaced memtest86 with memtest86+. It ran all night (was in the 
> 13th pass when I stopped it). In the first pass 8 errors were 
> detected; no additional ones found.
>
>   What is considered an acceptable error number? The 8 found here 
> seems high to me, but I know the areas are very tightly packed on 
> the silicon.
>
>   Should I swap these for a new pair?

IMO, even a single memory error means the underlying DIMM (or 
whatever) should be swapped out. memtest86+ should run completely 
clean.

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