On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 09:56 +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 06/02/18 04:52, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I installed memtest86+ and ran it with all of the defaults. It > > took > > over an hour, but no errors were reported. > > Please try parallel memtester and stress. These found memory errors > for > me that were not found by memtest86+. > > In *eight* terminal windows as root run (noting that you have 8GB > RAM): > > memtester 768M > > In one terminal window run (nothing that the FX-8320 has only 4 FPUs > and > stress -c spins on sqrt): > > stress -c 4 > > You can also tell memtester to use multiple iterations: > > memtester 768M 10 > > > I am rather hesitant about updating the BIOS/UFEI. In fact I can't > > seem to find an upgrade for the FX-8320 on the AMD web site. > > The BIOS/UEFI upgrade is an upgrade for your motherboard and can be > obtained from your motherboard vendor. For the Asus M5A97 R2.0: > https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/HelpDesk_BIOS/ > > You are currently running "Version 2006 2013/10/16". > Please try upgrading to "Version 2603 2015/07/24". > > Note the multiple entries entitled "Improve system stability". > > > Also, I'm rather hesitant about installing the amd64-package. > > wat? Why? Modern CPUs are released full of microcode bugs. AMD > release > new microcode that they wrote to fix these bugs in their microcode > and > that they recommend. Why would you not use it? > > Kind regards, > --
Thank you for your fine and detailed email. It has set my mind at ease. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Consultant www.molecular-modeling.net (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
