On 4/25/2013 1:49 PM, Nathan Duehr wrote: > I had a G7 that kept setting the RAM lights as if it had a RAM problem, so > the server support vendor visited more than once. The real problem was a > failing CPU. I mention it, because I've seen RAM problems that really > weren't and were misdiagnosed by the relatively crude monitoring built into > those motherboards, more than once.
thats not altogether surprising, the newer Intel CPUs (and all the AMD Opterons) integrate the RAM controller into the CPU chip, and it is basically impossible to tell which is at fault. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
