10 May
2014
10 May
'14
11:28 a.m.
On 09/05/14 22:43, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi all,
I've inherited an old Dell PowerEdge desktop, with 3GB DDR2 RAM in modules of 1GB. Naturally, I ran Memtest86 from one of the Ubuntu CDs. With all 3 RAM modules, memtest fails at approximately 50% of the whole test, at approximate offset of 128MB (40,000++ errors).
I then tested each of those RAM modules in isolation, same result. I ran the test of 1 module in a different slot, same result.
Try disabling USB in the BIOS. May sound unconnected but there was a bug on some Poweredge motherboards where the BIOS reserved some memory for legacy USB and it caused Memtest to fail.