Kernel GPF

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 18:48:48 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 10:07 -0600, Mikkel wrote:
> On 02/07/2010 03:42 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > 
> > poc,
> > 
> > mem=2000m may not help, as your BIOS/chipset might be interleaving
> > memory from multiple banks.
> > I'd know more if you post your hardware configuration. (CPU,
> > Motherboard, number of DIMMs, etc.)
> > 
> > In general, you should disable interleaving in BIOS (if you
> > chipset/bios/CPU supports it) and fire up memtest (found on the Fedora
> > ISO's and at http://www.memtest.org/)
> > Let it run for ~12-24h.
> > If it find a bad DIMMs (usually in pairs), remove it and run memtest
> > again.
> > 
> > - Gilboa
> > 
> You may also want to use some of the optional menus once you have an
> error. Memtest has this handy option that will tell you what DIM
> socket the memory that generated the error is in, so you know what
> one to pull. (It man not work with all setups.)

Yes, it tells me banks 3 and 4.

poc



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