This is from the Tech Tool Manual: (Condensed for brevity)
MAJOR MARCH: The most complex (and time consuming) memory test available,
the March test works like this: all memory locations are set to binary 0.
Them the first memory locations is set for 1. The test then reads all
remaining memory locations to verify that they have retained the value 0.
The entire process is then repeated, advance to memory locations 2, with all
other memory locations verified for the value 0. Entire process is repeated
until each memory locations has been cross tested to every other memory
location.
The March test currently requires an unreasonable amount of time to execute
and was designed to test memory on super computers and mainframes. It was
included for several reasons: ( 1) for the SUPER USER. (2) It is the most
thorough RAM test known to mankind.
MINOR MARCH: Works very much like the Major test except that instead of
performing a bit-by-bit test it performs a byte-by-byte test. Less
discriminate it is considerable faster.
On 5/10/01 01:33, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rotating in the TTP window as well. All the tests were Passed. So I
> thought, start from the top, only this time just with the two Minor and
> Major March tests and checked in the Full RAM radiobutton. When I clicked
> start all windows disaapeared (except of course the TTP ones) and the clock
> stopped. I couldn't see anything happening, so I crash-shut-down (using the
> Powerbutton on the computer itself - the one just below the screen).
>
> Can anybody tell me what these March-tests are, and if they're suposed to
> take forever. Maybe they're only for checking external machines, somehow.
>
> mange venlige hilsener
> Carsten Ortmann / DR / Rene Ord For Pengene
> 8739 7218 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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