On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:16 -0800, Colin Brace wrote: > Just now I am running memtest from the Live OS (F12) on an USB stick. > It has run now for some 8 hours, and during the 2nd pass I got an > error message: > > Tst: 7 > Pass: 2 > Failing address: 00007ba7454 - 123.6MB > Good: 2aa1e9b > Bad: 0aa1e19b > Err-Bits: 20000000 > Count: 1 > Chan: > > This netbook came with a factory-installed 2GB SIMM. Am I now > justified in returning it to Acer as defective? Can you repeat the error? If it's a random failure, it mightn't be the RAM. And unless you can prove a consistent RAM problem, it's harder to prove that it should be replaced, and much harder to convince a vendor that they have to. If it fails the memory test, it'll also fail in normal operations. Don't let a vendor claim a memory test isn't important. For my money, what I buy has to have zero errors. I've put up with a computer with crap RAM once before, and I never intend to do that again. It makes everything unreliable. You don't know whether your RAM caused a problem, or the software had a bug, but you can guarantee that you'll get more crashes than you'd otherwise have. I don't accept vendors that make claims that a certain percentage of errors is acceptable, let *them* have the faulty goods if they don't care. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
