dealing with deffective RAM

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Aug 15 12:24:37 PDT 2004


On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:49:48PM +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Both Memtest86 and Memtest86+ find some failures in
> RAM (one finds 11 faults, the other 14 - most 32-bit,
> but some are only 8-bit wide).  How can I deal with
> this in FreeBSD?

Remove the defective ones and replace them - don't waste time trying
to squeeze life out of the damaged hardware.  They're dead, and there
are probably other faults that the memory testers didn't find.

Kris
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