Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?! | From | Dax Kelson <> | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:39:36 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 01:56 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Perhaps some of you have read my older two threads: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116312440000001&r=1&w=2 and the even > older http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116291314500001&r=1&w=2 > > The issue was basically the following: > I found a severe bug mainly by fortune because it occurs very rarely. > My test looks like the following: I have about 30GB of testing data on > my harddisk,... I repeat verifying sha512 sums on these files and check > if errors occur. > One test pass verifies the 30GB 50 times,... about one to four > differences are found in each pass.
This sounds very similar to a corruption issue I was experiencing on my nforce4 based system. After replacing most of my hardware to no avail, I discovered that if increased the voltage for my RAM chips the corruption went away. Note that I was not overclocking at all.
Worth a try.
Dax Kelson
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