Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:06:33 -0500 | | From | "Linas Vepstas" <> | | Subject | Re: amd64 sata_nv (massive) memory corruption |
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2008/8/1 John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>:
> Linas> -- system is amd64 dual core, ASUS M2N-E mobo, 4GB RAM > Linas> Northbridge is nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller > Linas> (rev a3) > > Are you running the latest BIOS? As I recall, my motherboard is an > M2N-SLI Deluxe, which is slightly different from yours.
Its recent. I bought the thing only some number of months ago. The basic mobo design is 2-3 years old, though, its not bleeding edge, it was meant to be a conservative, stable, functional choice. I'd hope that they'd have things like this debugged by now. Sigh.
> Linas> Also of note: > Linas> -- problem was observed earlier, when system had 3GB RAM in it. > > What did you do to upgrade to 4gb of ram? Just pull the second pair > of 512mb DIMMs and put in fresh 1gb DIMMs? I've got a pair of 2gb > DIMMs in my box. I suspect you are seeing memory problems of some > sort.
No See other email. memtest86 passes fine, the system has been in heavy use as a compute server on large datasets. No problems at all, spotless record. I've beeb manipulating multi-gigabyte files just fine on the IDE disk, without any corruption at all. I can move them around on NFS, too. They only get corrupted in the SATA disk, where its immediate and widespread, and takes less than a minute to occur.
> Next, I'd upgraded the BIOS to the latest release, and then reset the > BIOS to the factory default or safe settings to see if that helps.
I'll give tht a whirl. Bios settings are still at factory defaults, I had no reason to mess with them.
--linas
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