On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote:
:A friend of mine swears by this memory testing utility:
:
:http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
:
:Apparently it tries a bunch of diffrent test patters that are likely to find
:memory problems that a simple test wouldn't find. It is cool because you
:just just write the image to a 1.44mb floppy and boot from that to do the
:test.
:
:A major downside is how long it takes. It takes around 8 hours on my laptop
The major downside is that software memory testing isn't conclusive. If it
detects a problem, you've probably got one. If it doesn't, you may still.
The only way to be sure is to use a hardware tester. If you don't have one,
and most of us don't, you have to resort to swapping memory.
:
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