On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:32:55PM -0500, David Filion wrote:
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> Does anyone know if there is a memory checking utility available for Linux?
> Something like the old Norton Diag for DOS. I installed a couple of new SIMMs
> and have been having memory problems ever since (problems crashing
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:15:43AM -0500, David Filion wrote:
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> I pulled out the remaining old SIMMs before I started the testing andi
> noticed a
> change in system stability right away so it probably was a conflict between
> the
> old and the new. The documentation I have (motherboard etc)
At 12:32 PM 1/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a memory checking utility available for Linux?
>Something like the old Norton Diag for DOS. I installed a couple of new SIMMs
>and have been having memory problems ever since (problems crashing etc.). I
>want to find out if the
Thanks for all the responces. I am currently running memtest86 2.1 and waiting
for the results.
I pulled out the remaining old SIMMs before I started the testing and noticed a
change in system stability right away so it probably was a conflict between the
old and the new. The documentation
For those interested,
I let the test utility run for day and it found nothing. I removed two older
simms I had left in leaving the two new simms and that seemed to clear up the
problem. It seems that even though the simms where of the same type, EDO
72pin, they were from different manufactu
David,
I used the memtest86 everyone has mentioned a few months ago
when I added 2 sticks of RAM. Didn't catch the problem after
letting it run for a day and a half.
Problem was the 2 SIMMs I installed were "batch" SIMMs and
weren't quite compatable. They were the cheapies from FRYES.
Yanked 'em
check out memtest86
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Filion wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a memory checking utility available for Linux?
> Something like the old Norton Diag for DOS. I installed a couple of new SIMMs
> and have been having mem
Does anyone know if there is a memory checking utility available for Linux?
Something like the old Norton Diag for DOS. I installed a couple of new SIMMs
and have been having memory problems ever since (problems crashing etc.). I
want to find out if the problem is with the SIMMs or some other
