[ale] Losing stability

[Matt Kubilus]

I'm just saying, save your time and just swap the RAM with a known
good.  I've had memtest86 tell me bad RAM was fine many times.  But
hey, what do I know, I've just seen it happen dozens of times.

-M

On 10/30/06, Matt Kubilus <mattkubilus at gmail.com> wrote:
> To prove a systems accuracy you will generally measure four things:
>
>   * True positives - The system says it is so, and the system is correct
>   * False positives - The system says it is so, and the system is wrong
>   * True negatives - The system says it is not so, and the system is correct
>   * False negatives - The system says it is not so, and the system is wrong
>
> If RAM failure is the positive condition then memtest86 can be said to
> have a high rate of false negatives.  Or so a system auditor might
> say.  The company I used to work for was regulated by the FDA.  Any
> new software & hardware systems would have to meet certain reliability
> requirements defined as above; in other words, a huge pain in the
> rear.
>
> Good luck getting your system back up!
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On 10/30/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:50 -0500, Matt Kubilus wrote:
> > > memtest86 is only really useful to prove that the memory is bad, not
> > > that the memory is good.
> >
> > It's orientation is binary, right?  If not bad, then good.  Or am I
> > missing something?
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> >
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