On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to identify the issues continuing since the motherboard failure > caused me to build a new system, but still using the old main drive (the > second has been taken out of service). Testing the new 4G of memory seems > not to work. > > The system has 4G of RAM (Kingston) and memtest86-3.5 does not (yet) > accommodate 4+G of RAM so I built memtest86-3.4 and installed memtest86-bin > in /boot, made it the last choice in /etc/lilo.conf, ran /sbin/lilo, and > decided that last night was a good time to run the tests. > > I rebooted and started the testing about 8:00pm last evening. Very quickly > the display showed it running test #2, and the right-most column (error > positions, IIRC) kept cycling with 5-digit numbers. A couple of hours later > the display had not changed. About 6:30 am this morning it still hadn't > changed. > > There is no mail list for support by the Brady bunch, and their Web site > says they don't respond to requests for help, problem reports, or bug > reports because the tool is downloaded > 200k times/month. > > There are almost certainly hardware folks here who might have some > suggestions on what I might have done incorrectly or what the lack of change > in the display (e.g., number of test series completed, total errors found) > might mean. >
I should add that this seems to say that memtest86 crashed not that it reported you have bad memory. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
