On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca) wrote: > 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 If a system fails under memtest, particularly if if fails repeatedly at or near the same point, I'd suspect bad memory despite any program output. Running for five hours suggests that memtest had cycled through all memory several times. IIRC it only took a few minutes (maybe ten or twenty, but certainly less than an hour) to complete a full test cycle through my 128 MB. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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