This is an ersatz-followup to my posts from last week about my machine
hanging due to a hardware problem. I ran the memtest-86 from
hwtools0.5-0.2, with all address ranges enabled and all test enabled.
After about five hours, the machine hung, but memtest-86 had detected
no memory errors. I took my machine back to the shop, told them the
memory was probably fine and could they exchange the CPU. Shop's
policy is to replace the memory first, which they did. Turns out the
memory was bad. I guess the moral of this story is, don't trust
memtest-86 (unless you know more about it than I do). Also, if my shop
is to be believed, memory fails most often, and cpu (Pentium III)
least often. Oh yeah BTW my shop uses a M$ program called BurnIn(?),
though this is not how they found my memory was bad (they just
guessed). -chris
