Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:23:30 +0200 | From | Boszormenyi Zoltan <> | Subject | Re: AMD FX CPU bug, not fixed by latest microcode? |
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2012-06-14 00:06 keltezéssel, Borislav Petkov írta: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:26:07PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: >> I did exactly that, the remaining two 8GB modules don't have faults >> according to memtest86+ and the machine is stable with "make -j8" in >> the kernel tree. Neither thunderbird nor firefox crashed for a day, >> these are the usual victims when hitting the bad memory address. > Cool. > > I guess you could try to limit it even further by taking a known-good > 8GB module and pairing it with one of the "bad" ones to see whether one > of the "bad" 8GB modules is faulty or both of them are. > > Or you could stop wasting time and go buy two new ones :-)
Yesterday I took the bad pair back to the shop with a screenshot showing memtest86+ results and they accepted it for warranty. I will get a new pair or RAMs for no extra fee.
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