On Tuesday 20 February 2001 14:19, you wrote:
Hi Dennis,
> > I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at
> bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen
> that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to
> get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not
> a technician so I am relying on their advice.
Find some new Techs... :) this is totally false, being a Tech myself with
over 18 years experience I know for a fact that you can indeed have a
system with either bad ram or incompatiable ram and the system will still
post.. BIO's does not check or test each and every register on a stick of
ram this can only be accomplished by either using a dedecated ram tester
( most repair shops have one ) or the less reliable method is PC-Check
or one of it's many clones.. One of the other gotcha's with newer systems
is ram module incompatibilitys two different manufactures modules installed
and one being either of a different speed or just plain incompatiable and
these problems 99% of the time do not show up until an OS is loaded and
the ram is fully utilized...
Regards,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM
> To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
> Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
>
> I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can
> confirm this?
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