Author Topic: What does WARNING: DIMM EEPROM area 0 is Writable! Mean?  (Read 5518 times)

Offline jmp242

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I've gotten this on part of the quicktest with v7 on an IBM Intellistation M ... It doesn't seem like an actual hardware error ...

Offline fwilson

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jmp242,

The DIMM/RIMM EEPROM ID Test is verifying the Serial Presence Detection data (e.g., per the appropriate JEDEC or Rambus specification) contained in the Serial EEPROM for each DIMM/RIMM; this test also checks that the Serial EEPROM containing the SPD data is write-protected.

You are correct it's not an actual error, It is warning you that the eeprom is in a state that it can be changed.

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