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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Reliable hardware
To: orion@cora.nwra.com (Orion Poplawski)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:33:47 +0000 (GMT)
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> >>Random lockups on dual athlons are a notorious problem under all
> >>OS's. Start by checking it passes memtest86, that will verify the
> >>RAM is ok - and the AMD is -very- picky about RAM.
> >>
> >>If thats ok then let me know which board you have, what is plugged
> >>into it and what PSU you are using.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I have two AMD MP 2000+ cpus in an ASUS A7M266-D. Even after returning 
> >my memory for new chips the store owner memtest86'd, my combo of cpus 
> >and mobo was finding the occasional error. I finally ended up 
> >resolving it by simply underclocking the bus about 6Mhz :( 
> >
> >Next time, I'm buying ECC memory.

Why?  ECC memory guards against a single bit error in the RAM, nothing
else, (except that it also reports double bit errors).

John.
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