<div dir="ltr">Ditto. If memtest+ shows errors, the ram has issues. If I get a new dimm and it flunks memtest, I get it replaced immediately. It won't get better, only worse, with age (and heat).<br><br>Since you pulled one dimm and it stink puked, swap the pulled for the in place and try again. Run memtest on the smallest amount of new ram you can use to isolate the error dimm. If the problem persistes at the same test point for BOTH dimms, the chipset is bad and you need a new mobo. AMD 64 x2 is probably not an Opteron but an consumer grade chip without the on chip memory management. HOWEVER! Double check the heat sink on the cpu. If the cpu overheats on boot it can fail at about the same point each time as that's it's heat saturation point.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Brian Pitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Memtest errors are a *strong* indication that you have bad RAM. Trying<br>
to solve any other problems is likely a pointless exercise in<br>
frustration while this is the case.<br>
<br>
This doesn't mean you have to throw the RAM out. If there are only a few<br>
problem areas you can disable them using memmap [0]. An explanation of<br>
how to do this is available here [1]; googling memmap "bad ram" should<br>
turn up more relevant discussion.<br>
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[0]<br>
<a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" target="_blank">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt</a><br>
[1]<br>
<a href="http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2007-08/msg00131.html" target="_blank">http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2007-08/msg00131.html</a><br>
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-Brian<br>
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