dealing with deffective RAM

David Kelly dkelly at HiWAAY.net
Fri Aug 20 09:04:46 PDT 2004


On Aug 20, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:

> I've tested multiple times, for up to 16
> hours at a time, and the results are consistent: no
> errors with a single module, a lot of them with both
> inserted, no matter which is the order of the modules
> (original, or swapped).  I assume it's the fault of
> the motherboard, not of the memory modules.

It could be your power supply. With age electrolytic capacitors loose 
capacity and detune the filters in the power supply. Noise gets thru. 
Errors occur.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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