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Date:      Wed, 4 May 2016 04:37:15 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu
Subject:   Re: Is 10.3 i386 jinxed ?
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On Wed, 4 May 2016, Manish Jain wrote:

> On 05/04/16 10:35, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 May 2016, Manish Jain wrote:
>> 
>>> What is printed underneath is NE56R14l-B9502G32Mnks
>>> 
>>> I can't be sure whether the l is actually l or I or 1
>> 
>> Looks like this one:
>> http://in.gateway.com/gw/en/IN/content/model/NX.Y1USI.005
>> 
>> Which does not have a separate GPU, and means that the bad memory would be 
>> in one of the removable DIMMs.
>> 
>> 
>
>
> Something to cheer about, at last. But then why does not memtest86+ pick up 
> any errors in 65 passes ?

Possibly because they are hidden by being in an area of memory that 
memtest86 can't test.  Testing with only one DIMM could change that, or 
changing the amount of RAM allocated to video in the BIOS.  Only change 
one thing at a time.



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