Kernel GPF

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Feb 7 16:07:16 UTC 2010


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.)

Mikkel
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