2.6.15-1.1831 Memory Issues

Bill Perkins perk at iag.net
Sat Feb 18 13:51:35 UTC 2006


James Wilkinson wrote:
> Brian Hanks wrote:
>> When I got home last night, I had a chance to look into this more
>> thoroughly.  It turns out that it was a memory related issue.  When I ran
>> memtest I was presented with a whole host of errors.  This was a bit strange
>> since this motherboard has been rock solid for over a year.  That's when I
>> noticed that the motherboard was detecting the CPU incorrectly and
>> consequently setting the memory timing incorrectly.  It doesn't make sense
>> to me that this just started to happen out of the blue, but it did.
>>
>> It's an Asus A7V880.  Anyone else every see anything like this?

Another possibility is the NVRAM battery has gone out, and is messing 
with the clock, and other parts on the main board; just for grins, try 
replacing it and see what happens.

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