Ram problem

steven james pyro at linuxlabs.com
Thu Oct 10 11:36:01 CEST 2002


Greetings,

I think I've got it now. It passes mem tests, and boots.
I will look forward to comparing just to see...

G'day,
sjames


On 8 Oct 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote:

> steven james <pyro at linuxlabs.com> writes:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm trying to get ram working on an e7500 MCH.
> > It seems to be actually initting, but when I run ramtest it, I
> > consistantly see a single bit toggled when reading back such as:
> 
> > Other times, I see that the second read (in order to display the bad
> > value) actually reads successfully such as 000127a8:000127a8
> 
> Hmm.  it sounds very much like you are missing something.
> When I finally finally got the ram intialization sequence working the
> ram was rock solid.  
> 
> Is this known good ram?
> 
> > Does anyone have any ideas what might cause that?
> 
> There are too many variables for me to have a good guess.  I am just
> about to sync my tree with the sourceforge tree and you can compare
> notes.
> 
> Eric
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