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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:23:30 +0200
From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu>
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Subject: Re: AMD FX CPU bug, not fixed by latest microcode?
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2012-06-14 00:06 keltezéssel, Borislav Petkov írta:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:26:07PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> I did exactly that, the remaining two 8GB modules don't have faults
>> according to memtest86+ and the machine is stable with "make -j8" in
>> the kernel tree. Neither thunderbird nor firefox crashed for a day,
>> these are the usual victims when hitting the bad memory address.
> Cool.
>
> I guess you could try to limit it even further by taking a known-good
> 8GB module and pairing it with one of the "bad" ones to see whether one
> of the "bad" 8GB modules is faulty or both of them are.
>
> Or you could stop wasting time and go buy two new ones :-)

Yesterday I took the bad pair back to the shop with a screenshot
showing memtest86+ results and they accepted it for warranty.
I will get a new pair or RAMs for no extra fee.

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