Hardware :: RAM Errors - Kubuntu 10.10 Froze Randomly
Dec 18, 2010
Kubuntu 10.10 froze on me randomly. I shrugged it and rebooted. Then less than an hour later, another freeze. This was rare, so I started up Memtest86+ and let it go.
The results... were not encouraging.
Stock voltage on both. Never overclocked.
After pass 0 complete, swapped around various tests and ranges to check.
At pass 38, switched from full-range to test #5 2048M-3327M.
After pass 80, switched to various tests. No tests other than #5 generated errors.
So now my question is multipart...
One, is there anything that can be adjusted within linux itself to avoid triggering these errors (need to keep using this RAM for at least another week before I can afford to RMA it)?
Two, I'm assuming this does indeed point to RAM malfunction/damage, but if I'm wrong, what is going on here?
Three, if there is a way to adjust for these errors, should I still be RMAing it? If I do, I'm going to attempt to get some the same size/speed of ECC RAM. When I ordered originally, I wasn't aware the motherboard I'd picked supported ECC. Now I am.
Seems I'm not able to RMA this RAM at present, working with the company I got it from, but that option's just about out. Now, I read something about a kernel module called badram, but I'm finding little detail on how to go about activating it properly. Seems like if I can disable the one chip these errors are all occurring via, that would solve the issue just fine.
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Apr 4, 2010
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Code:
blakefebruary7@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
[code]....
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The mobo I am using
ECS GeForce7050M-M V2.0 motherboard features the NVIDIA Geforce7050PV/nForce 630a integrated chipset
On AMD dual x64
CHIPSET
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NVIDIA Geforce7050PV/nForce 630a
NVIDIA MCP68PVNT Single Chipset
GRAPHICS
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On Chip (NVIDIAGeforce7050-based with 2D/3D graphic engine)
Integrated DirectX 9 graphics processor
Share Memory: Maximum up to 256MB
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Code:
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==23002== Copyright (C) 2002-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
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[code]....
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The original thread is at: [url]
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