27 May
2008
27 May
'08
5:44 p.m.
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
It would be great if there were a simple machine that you could plug a bunch of dimms of varying types into and it will perform high-speed tests on them continuously and flag ones that show an error.
Then you could test all memory modules thoroughly before putting them into production servers (or any server for that matter).
and DIMMs could pass that hardware tester and still fail in a production server due to differences in timing, capacitive/inductive signal load, etc. especially sensitive are systems that use dual bank interleaving on a single memory bus.
actually, said machines DO exist, known as ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) but they cost $1M's