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Following my unfortunate experience last weekend, I've been doing a thorough burn-in on my old server, to make sure everything's fine.
Several days of prime95 were uneventful. As you might have guessed from the thread title, memtest86+ was not:
For future reference, memtest86+ just happily chugged along reporting zero errors.
Bad news for me is I have further debugging to do and further RMAs to do. That makes at least two major system components knocked out in that mysterious event.
Excellent news for the community is that a very popular platform, Core i3 4xxx plus Supermicro X10 board + QVL RAM clearly properly supports ECC error correction.
Also interesting is that the errors seem to be happening at regular intervals, suggesting it may be a single bad cell.
Now, let's get to the details:
Hardware:
Several days of prime95 were uneventful. As you might have guessed from the thread title, memtest86+ was not:
For future reference, memtest86+ just happily chugged along reporting zero errors.
Bad news for me is I have further debugging to do and further RMAs to do. That makes at least two major system components knocked out in that mysterious event.
Excellent news for the community is that a very popular platform, Core i3 4xxx plus Supermicro X10 board + QVL RAM clearly properly supports ECC error correction.
Also interesting is that the errors seem to be happening at regular intervals, suggesting it may be a single bad cell.
Now, let's get to the details:
Hardware:
- Intel Core i3 4330
- Supermicro X10SLM+-F
- 2 * Crucial CT102472BD160B / Micron MT18KSF1G72AZ-1G6E1
- Currently powered by a brand-new Seasonic X-650, powered by a Seasonic G-550 when the whole mess happened