On 9/3/08, Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2008 09:04:01 am Dave Wilson wrote: > > If you > > find that the build test fails, and then find that memtest succeeds, > > then you can deduce that the problem lies with your hard drive > > > Only if memtest is infallible. I may be mistaken but I've long held the > opinion that while a memtest failure almost certainly means defective memory, > a memtest pass does not carry quite the same weight.
I had a computer with bad ECC that would pass memtest. It did make little notes in the BIOS log, but memtest itself issed no complaints. Attempting to compile something though would cause all sorts of mystery errors. memtest is hardly representative of real world usage patterns.
