Re: checking memory

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:24:51AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: 

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:21:19AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I was thinking of bad memory that might cause this behaviour.
> 
> Helping about checking memory:
>   Install package 'hwtools'
>   Put a blank, formatted floppy disk in /dev/fd0 (or fd1)
>   # cp usr/lib/hwtools/memtest86.bin /dev/fd0
>   Reboot the computer with this disk.

Thanks, I know several ways to check the memory. The problem is that
this server is used and I don`t want to shut it down, to check the
memory. I'd rather exchange all the RAM-modules.
I just wanted to know if there is a good explanation for this
behaviour except RAM?
Regards,
Phil