Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:21 PM 08/01/2009, DHSinclair wrote: Thane (et.al.), I finished a 24hr cycle using the WinDiag Ram test. No errors. For now this is a good result. I have some confidence in the remaining dimm I am using ATM. But, as you say, not really conclusive! By your metric, I'm not sure there

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:20 AM 09/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: btw if it aint: http://www.memtest.org/ it sux :) Of course, it doesn't work very well, except on really, really bad RAM. But it's a start. I'm still looking for something capable of quickly and definitively testing RAM. I have a program that

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Weeden
Windows is a pretty reliable diagnostic tool for determining when you have bad RAM. Unfortunately, it's also a pretty good diagnostic tool for dozens of other problems and always makes you guess which problem is causing which symptom :) --- Brian Weeden Technical

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread DHSinclair
Thane, OK. I did also run the dimm with memtest+ v2.11 for 24+ hours (~47 passes) w/o any errors. I will now wind it up again and just let it run for the week. :) Thanks, Duncan At 08:00 01/12/2009 -0400, you wrote: At 10:21 PM 08/01/2009, DHSinclair wrote: Thane (et.al.), I finished

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:00 AM 12/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: Doesn't exist :) Well, I think the hardware ones might do what I want, but I can't convince the powers that be that we should invest ~ $3500 US in a RAM tester. :) T On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:02:24AM -0400, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:20

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:10 AM 12/01/2009, Brian Weeden wrote: Windows is a pretty reliable diagnostic tool for determining when you have bad RAM. Unfortunately, it's also a pretty good diagnostic tool for dozens of other problems and always makes you guess which problem is causing which symptom :) Yeah, the

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:07 PM 12/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: We have a few at work and they work so-so not gonna be much if at all better than memtestplus :( Well that's unfortunate. I guess I'm stuck running long tests. Oh well. T

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 12:07 PM 12/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: We have a few at work and they work so-so not gonna be much if at all better than memtestplus :( Well that's unfortunate. I guess I'm stuck running long tests. Oh well. Even beyond that, $3500

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:00 PM 12/01/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 12:07 PM 12/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: We have a few at work and they work so-so not gonna be much if at all better than memtestplus :( Well that's unfortunate. I guess I'm stuck running

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:00 PM 12/01/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 12:07 PM 12/01/2009, Bryan Seitz wrote: We have a few at work and they work so-so not gonna be much if at all better than memtestplus :(

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-08 Thread DHSinclair
Thane (et.al.), I finished a 24hr cycle using the WinDiag Ram test. No errors. For now this is a good result. I have some confidence in the remaining dimm I am using ATM. But, as you say, not really conclusive! By your metric, I'm not sure there will ever be a conclusive position. OK. The

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-08 Thread Bryan Seitz
btw if it aint: http://www.memtest.org/ it sux :) On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:21:22PM -0500, DHSinclair wrote: Thane (et.al.), I finished a 24hr cycle using the WinDiag Ram test. No errors. For now this is a good result. I have some confidence in the remaining dimm I am using ATM. But,

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-07 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:02 PM 07/01/2009, DHSinclair wrote: Thane, Have you tried this RAM diagnostic tool from MS? http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Just wondering? Finally got its' dot-iso burned to a CD-r/w, and it is now running. I am trying to certify the remaining dimm in my suspect new PC. So

Re: [H] Ram diagnostic?

2009-01-07 Thread DHSinclair
Thane, Yes, proving a good dimm seems like proving a double-negative!!! Not likely; well until we have a definitive standard's based diagnostic module. But, the way thinks change so quickly, I now understand your frustration.. :) Best, Duncan At 13:12 01/07/2009 -0400, you wrote: