Bad memory module?

Dean S. Messing deanm at sharplabs.com
Wed Nov 23 20:41:19 UTC 2011


On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Does this mean I have a memory module about to go out?
> 
> When in doubt add a memtest boot menu entry and let it
> check out your memory for a few hours:
>
> http://www.memtest.org/

Thanks for the tip.  I'll run it all night tonight.
(This is my work machine and I'm on it now.)

Do you know what this message actually means?

Nov 23 11:39:50 <machine name> kernel: [54140.456113] EDAC MC0: CE row 1, channel 1, label "": (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=2 RDWR=Read RAS=15602 CAS=460, CE Err=0x10000 (Correctable Patrol Data ECC)) 


Dean


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