faulty memory (was Re: Gcc 3.2.2 vs gcc 3.2.3)

[Lowell Gilbert]

Stijn Hoop <stijn at win.tue.nl> writes:

> I just had this problem, P4 on Gigabyte mainboard, DDR400 memory, 2 DIMMs
> of 512 MB each. With a single DIMM (both DIMMs tested) memtest didn't
> find anything and the machine was rock stable, but in any combo of the
> 2 DIMMs, dual channel or not, the machine would lock up / throw
> gcc ICE everytime.
> 
> When I ran memtest on the machine with both DIMMs in, it would consistently
> show errors in one 512 half though, and so I returned the one 'faulty' DIMM
> and all was well.
> 
> Talk about strange...

Not that strange.  The second socket was having problems.  
Maybe just couldn't handle the capacitance load it was 
getting (which could be different with other modules; 
other sized modules, anyway).