Has anyone used Rember? can it be relied upon?
I have a G4 867mhz running OS 10.3.8 with 1.5gb RAM and I have been experiencing system freezes every few days. After reading about other freezes people have been having, the most common cause I have put down to 'bad' RAM (Although I haven't tried a Fresh OS install yet).
I ran a Rember check with all 3 x 512mb sticks installed and it came back with errors being logged (see below) but I tried running it seperately 3 times with only 1 x 512mb chip in each time to try and isolate the bad RAM module but am getting no errors. It only shows errors when all 3 are installed.
Can anyone help? or shed some light on the problem? it'd be most appreciated.
Thanks
here is the error log
Memtest version 4.05M (32-bit)
Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only
MacOS X (Darwin) running in multi-user mode
POSIX version 198808
Pagesize is 4096
Pagesizemask is 0xfffffffffffff000
Requested memory: 1223MB (1282408448 bytes)
Available memory: 1223MB (1282793472 bytes)
Allocated memory: 1223MB (1282408448 bytes)
Attempting to lock allocated physical memory....memory locked successfully
Running 1 test sequence...
Test sequence 1 of 1:
Stuck Address : ok
Random Value : ok
Compare XOR : ok
Compare SUB : ok
Compare MUL : ok
Compare DIV : ok
Compare OR : ok
Compare AND : ok
Sequential Increment: ok
Solid Bits : ok
Block Sequential : ok
Checkerboard : ok
Bit Spread : ok
Bit Flip : FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a0.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a2.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a4.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a6.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a8.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0aa.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0ac.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0ae.
Walking Ones : ok
Walking Zeroes : ok
Test failures! - error code 4.
I have a G4 867mhz running OS 10.3.8 with 1.5gb RAM and I have been experiencing system freezes every few days. After reading about other freezes people have been having, the most common cause I have put down to 'bad' RAM (Although I haven't tried a Fresh OS install yet).
I ran a Rember check with all 3 x 512mb sticks installed and it came back with errors being logged (see below) but I tried running it seperately 3 times with only 1 x 512mb chip in each time to try and isolate the bad RAM module but am getting no errors. It only shows errors when all 3 are installed.
Can anyone help? or shed some light on the problem? it'd be most appreciated.
Thanks
here is the error log
Memtest version 4.05M (32-bit)
Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only
MacOS X (Darwin) running in multi-user mode
POSIX version 198808
Pagesize is 4096
Pagesizemask is 0xfffffffffffff000
Requested memory: 1223MB (1282408448 bytes)
Available memory: 1223MB (1282793472 bytes)
Allocated memory: 1223MB (1282408448 bytes)
Attempting to lock allocated physical memory....memory locked successfully
Running 1 test sequence...
Test sequence 1 of 1:
Stuck Address : ok
Random Value : ok
Compare XOR : ok
Compare SUB : ok
Compare MUL : ok
Compare DIV : ok
Compare OR : ok
Compare AND : ok
Sequential Increment: ok
Solid Bits : ok
Block Sequential : ok
Checkerboard : ok
Bit Spread : ok
Bit Flip : FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a0.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a2.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a4.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a6.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0a8.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0aa.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0ac.
FAILURE: 0xff04ffff != 0xfffbffff at offset 0x03e4c0ae.
Walking Ones : ok
Walking Zeroes : ok
Test failures! - error code 4.
