[LinuxBIOS] RAM controller breakage?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 16:15:25 CET 2006


On 11/11/06, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just a bit curious - are there settings/registers in northbridges
> which can seriously brick a mainboard and/or RAM (physically) if abused
> properly?
>
> I'll start testing my 440BX code soon, so I'd like to know what I have
> to expect...
>

I don't think you can. I have over the years tried a lot of wrong ram
settings, and only ever seen temporary failures. We have in 7 1/2
years never seen anything that looked like damage due to bad ram
programming.

thanks

ron




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