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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Paolo Pisati <flag@libero.it>
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Subject: Re: spontaneous rebbot, memtest and overclock sodimm
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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

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