Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:13:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paolo Pisati <flag@libero.it> Cc: FreeBSD_Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: spontaneous rebbot, memtest and overclock sodimm Message-ID: <20020221101341.A25836@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020221115738.A35667@southcross.skynet.org>; from flag@libero.it on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:57:38AM %2B0100 References: <20020221115738.A35667@southcross.skynet.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:57:38AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote: > Is it possible that the first run of memtest wasn't able to find the problem? > Why goldmem can't find the problem? Software memory testers are inherently unreliable: if they tell you you have a problem, then you do, but if they don't then you may or may not have one. This is explained at length in the mailing list archives, and it should be also in the documentation for those utilities. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8dTjVWry0BWjoQKURAlw4AKCU+LIzNndIkrTi7BZg12Dr/WmIOgCeO54a PbkI1nTpzncd3T5ZUS3bspk= =zlG8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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