From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 19:41:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82C816AA21 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCF843D54 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7FJfJEo072372; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:41:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:41:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Laurentiu Pancescu Message-ID: <20040815194119.GD73391@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040815154948.28008.qmail@web50806.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040815154948.28008.qmail@web50806.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dealing with deffective RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:41:21 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 15), Laurentiu Pancescu said: > Both Memtest86 and Memtest86+ find some failures in RAM (one finds 11 > faults, the other 14 - most 32-bit, but some are only 8-bit wide). > How can I deal with this in FreeBSD? Buying new RAM modules is > probably the best choice, but I have no guarantee that the new > modules will be perfectly ok, so it might be wasted money. Under Sure you do. It's called a warranty. If it's bad, return it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com