Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

From: Philip Lawatsch
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 14:18:36 EST


Ray Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:37 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
>>This is getting pretty ridiculous.. I've tried memory timings down to
>>the slowest possible, ran Memtest86 for 4 passes with no errors, and
>>it's been stable in Windows for a few months now. Still something is
>>blowing up in Linux with this test though..
>
>
> Have you run the same memset test under windows?
>
> I've traced a lot of oddball problems down to bad or marginal power
> supplies.

So far I've tried 2 PSUs and 3 different brands of memory.

No differences. And due to a lack of windows I cant really test it.

I'll try a different (not based on nforce 4) motherboard now.


kind regards Philip
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