Re: memtest (was: user perms)

2022-06-15 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 07:26:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-15 06:34 (UTC-0400): > > > I have had to replace some memory, but now memtest can't > > be found, I guess because it is a 16 bit build, and can't be > > changed. But it ran ON THIS 6 core i5, probably 8

Re: memtest (was: user perms)

2022-06-15 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2022-06-15 06:34 (UTC-0400): > I have had to replace some memory, but now memtest can't > be found, I guess because it is a 16 bit build, and can't be > changed. But it ran ON THIS 6 core i5, probably 8 or 9 times > pre bullseye. > So what replaces it? From the thread abo

Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now on to finding the source of my hard locks. ugh./ Be sure to check the temperature of your CPU. (been there) In my case, I had to vacuum the fan and re-mount properly (with enough grease) the fan mount. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Deliveri

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > next on my checklist os memtest. I've tried to boot into memtest from > > both the harddrive and the floppy that can be created with the > > memtest+ package. upon booting it says memtest is

Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:44:13PM -0400, Jay Zach wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > next on my checklist os memtest. I've tried to boot into memtest from > both the harddrive and the floppy that can be created with the > memtest+ package. upon booting it says memtest is too big to fit in > memory. wah? > > the memtest+.bin image is only 93K. >

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm board, 256 megs ram. > > it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothin

Re: Memtest tool

2002-01-26 Thread Michael D. Crawford
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:03, hanasaki wrote: (looking for a memory tester) for an x86 box you can get memtest86 at http://www.memtest86.com/ I think it is the best thing since sliced bread. Also see the section "Test the Basic Health of Your System" in my article "Using Test Suites to Validate t

Re: Memtest tool

2002-01-25 Thread hanasaki
Thanks :) Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:03:32AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I recently installed and booted Conectiva Linux. The install had a neat memory test tool in the boot menu. It looks like it is a Kernel that just runs RAM / CPU Cache testing. There is an entry in the G

Re: Memtest tool

2002-01-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:03:32AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I recently installed and booted Conectiva Linux. The install had a neat > memory test tool in the boot menu. It looks like it is a Kernel that > just runs RAM / CPU Cache testing. There is an entry in the Grub config > to boot it jus

Re: memtest

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Uh, then it isn't a reliable memory test, is it? Heh, I guess that's what the BIOS memory test is for! Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:16:38 +0200 (MET DST) > From: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memtest

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... There is no such package `memtest'. I have no such program installed, either. Maybe you could give me some pointers? Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Lawrence wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:28:40 +1000 > From: Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Subject: mem

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:46:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *-Lawrence (22 Jul) > | E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > | > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > | > > even 7000? > | > > | > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big a

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread servis
*-Lawrence (22 Jul) | E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: | > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or | > > even 7000? | > | > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your | > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part o

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > > > even 7000? > > > > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your > > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part of > > your physic

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Lawrence
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > > even 7000? > > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part of > your physical memory. If yo

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > | > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? | > | > Oops! Right after I sent that first

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone > > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? > > > > Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used >

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Lawrence
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone > | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? > > Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used > bytes instead of

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used bytes instead of bits. That calculation should've been:

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Yeah, memtest takes "words" as arguments. That's 32 bits on 386/486/Pentium so (256*1024^2)/32 = 8388608 memtest 8388608