Memtest86+ results

[Craig McLean]

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STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
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> Last week I lost a power supply on my FC4
> machine at home.  I put in a new one and
> everything was find for a day or so.  It
> then froze.  /var/log/messages showed a kernel
> BUG at include/linux/list.h:166.  That line
> is sanity checking a double linked list.
> I dropped back to a previous kernel and after
> a while got the same result after a day or so.
> 
> I loaded the memtest86+  rpm and booted it.
> It ran fine till test 5 which is copying large
> blocks of data.  I got 762 errors.  The box has
> 2  256 Meg dimms.  I pulled one out and ran the
> test again.  Got errors at the same address 
> ranges (at least the ones I saved).  I swapped
> in the other memory dimm and ran again.  Same
> errors, same addresses.  Very suspicious.

I've had PSUs go with a spike in the past which has trashed PCI cards,
let alone DIMMs/memory controllers/bridges/CPUs. Do you have another box
you can relocate the RAM to for testing? Perhaps the Mobo got kicked?

C.
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