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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:24:35 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Laurentiu Pancescu <plaur_27@yahoo.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dealing with deffective RAM
Message-ID:  <20040815192434.GA14891@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040815154948.28008.qmail@web50806.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040815154948.28008.qmail@web50806.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:49:48PM +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> Both Memtest86 and Memtest86+ find some failures in
> RAM (one finds 11 faults, the other 14 - most 32-bit,
> but some are only 8-bit wide).  How can I deal with
> this in FreeBSD?

Remove the defective ones and replace them - don't waste time trying
to squeeze life out of the damaged hardware.  They're dead, and there
are probably other faults that the memory testers didn't find.

Kris

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