[wellylug] hardware errors

[Cliffp]

On 11/06/14 18:51, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a (client's) machine that reports hardware errors, probably
> relating to memory. I'm running memtest86+ (latest version) on it; that
> hasn't shown anything so far. I suspect that may be because ECC corrects
> the errors before memtest86+ sees it, while Linux receives an exception
> or something and that's what it's logging.
>
> Does anyone know of better tools to diagnose this - perhaps ones that
> are likely to always hit the error, or ones that can get around ECC
> hiding the problem, or (best) ones that will identify a specific flakey
> DIMM (or chipset or cpu or whatever is causing the problem)?
>
> A sample of the errors is shown here:
> http://paste.debian.net/104039/
>
> Any hints very welcome :-)
>
Cut your losses and replace the RAM? Seriously, if you find errors, you 
are going to replace it anyway.

Cheers,

Cliff