Does lshw list the "factory" speed of a memory module or the effective speed and how to find the former?
- by Panayiotis Karabassis
I hope I phrased this correctly. lshw gives:
description: DIMM Synchronous 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
product: M378B5773CH0-CH9
vendor: Samsung
physical id: 0
slot: DIMM0
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
And indeed the memory speed is set is set to 800MHz in the BIOS, which I think makes sense since it is a double rate.
On the other hand, Googling strongly suggests that to this product number corresponds the PC3-10600 type, which is 1333MHz, not 800MHz. And this seems to be confirmed in the BIOS, where if I select Auto for memory bus speed, 1333MHz is selected "based on SPD settings".
However in the latter case, the computer does not boot, i.e. the kernel panics, complaining that something attempted to kill the Idle process.
So, I am I am beginning to suspect that I have been given defective memory, the technician that installed saw this, and lowered the bus speed. Is this a possibility?