[ltp] memtest86+ errors on T60

[James Knott]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi list,
> earlier today I decided to run memtest on my two years old T60
> (2007-FRG). It came with one 1GB DIMM and I've extended it with a 2GB
> one from Kingston about a year ago. I'm pretty sure that I ran memtest
> on both the new laptop and after adding the memory upgrade, and that I
> got no errors.
>
> However, today's run of memtest reports lots of interesting errors,
> including stuff like "should read all zeros, but I got this garbage
> data instead". According to memtest86+, all errors occur exclusively
> between offsets 0x0 and 0x01eac0 (that's about 0.8 MB). Everything
> stays the same even when I remove any of the two modules, swap them or
> put one into the other slot.
>
> I guess that my system board is dying and that I have no other option
> than bringing the thing to the nearest service center. Considering
> that it won't be really cool to not have the laptop available in next
> two or three weeks, I wonder if there's any chance that it's just
> memtest's fault, after all. I realize that it's probably just a false
> hope, but well, the repair would take some time and that would suck.
>

I have seen memtest generate false errors.  Try one DIMM at a time.  If
there are problems with only one DIMM, then this will verify that.  Are
you having problems to suggest memory issues?  You can also try other
versions of memtest.



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