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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but it would be good to test my understanding .
I mistakenly installed 12GB RAM on a board fitted with a Celeron J4025 CPU. This CPU only supports 8GB.
The UEFI/BIOS reports 12GB RAM installed as does the OS & Memtest86 and the machine boots normally. I ran Memtest86 overnight with the default tests and got a 'pass'.
I presume however that as the CPU can't actually address all 12GB, Memtest86 is testing some of the RAM twice - is this credible or does Memtest86 test for 'folded over' (for want of the proper technical term!) memory addressing?
I suppose it could by writing different values to blocks of memory then reading it back, but the use case is flimsy as who installs more memory than the hardware supports ?
Many thanks in anticipation
Cheers, Mike
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but it would be good to test my understanding .
I mistakenly installed 12GB RAM on a board fitted with a Celeron J4025 CPU. This CPU only supports 8GB.
The UEFI/BIOS reports 12GB RAM installed as does the OS & Memtest86 and the machine boots normally. I ran Memtest86 overnight with the default tests and got a 'pass'.
I presume however that as the CPU can't actually address all 12GB, Memtest86 is testing some of the RAM twice - is this credible or does Memtest86 test for 'folded over' (for want of the proper technical term!) memory addressing?
I suppose it could by writing different values to blocks of memory then reading it back, but the use case is flimsy as who installs more memory than the hardware supports ?
Many thanks in anticipation
Cheers, Mike
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