[LinuxBIOS] VIA K8T890+VT8237 - update of the status

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Thu Aug 16 02:03:12 CEST 2007


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:33:02AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Just an update. The "memtester" which is doing the memtesting while in OS will
> fail on "solid test".
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> Has anyone ever succeeded to run more than one dimm  DDR unbuffered in single
> channel mode on K8?

I get the same problem on my ASUS A8N5X (K8 northbridge).  It can be reproduced
with memtest86 too (in my case it fails after a few seconds).  Also, sometimes
Linux fails CRC check while decompressing itself.

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