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Hello all
I am running CentOS 5 on a small server and I am
having very strange memory malfunctions.
The computer runs perfectly with no problems
whatsoever. From time to time, after a soft reboot, the computer emmits beeps
corresponding to a memory fault.
It never reboots again until I find and remove a
now defective DIMM. That DIMM can never be used again because it is out of
order.
This just happened for the *fourth* time and is
costing me a lot of hassle and perhaps expense if the manufacturer does not
replace the DIMM freely.
The memory is DDR400 ECC from Kingston and of the
type recommended by the motherboard's manufacturer. The board is a Tyan Tomcat
i875p (S5102).
Would it be possible that the DIMMs are being
destroyed by some software component from the OS, perhaps the I2C management?
The DIMMs do have EPROMS... Are they being incorrectly accessed by some software
component and their program modified?
Could this be the board's fault? And
how?
I don't know what to think of this, I never saw
anything like that in my already long experience with computers...
I must say again that this memory error
*never* happens while the computer is in service, it always happened upon a
soft reboot.
Any hints would be appreciated.
Thank you
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