On Friday 01 June 2001 00:27, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote:
memtest-x86.bin in /images on the CD
You can always boot the CD and hit F1 at the splash screen and enter rescue
mode to run it.
Civileme
> Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > Thank you!
>
> Always here!
> =o)
>
> > And correct. If the memory is there, and not properly configured, things
> > can get "goofy". I had a machine do this to me. Spent most of a week
> > trying to figure out what was wrong.
>
> It's a UGLY situation...
>
> > I had another box just hang KDE after adding memory to it. I never
> > understood why, but the only thing that fixed it was blowing away the
> > .kde directory, and .kderc. Then it would come up.
> >
> > Also, the original poster mentioned that Windows had booted. If so, then
> > check the memory in Windows to see if:
> >
> > 1) It's recognizing ALL of it (or only some of it).
> > 2) If it's flaging some of it as bad.
> >
> > if it's not recognizing it all, then there is another problem. I was
> > looking for information, not giving a solution until we know the extent
> > of the problem, and do a little diagnosing.
>
> Sometimes I diagnose bad memory setting the BIOS to don't
> " Quick Boot" , and the BEEPS show me some errors.
> But a long time ago I read about a software to testing memo
> ry, don't remember the name...
> On winblows, test this opening all the helps you find, at SAME
> time!
> ;-)
>
> Good luck
>
> > Ric
