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Re: machine hangs: solved!



kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:

> 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. 

I  didn't, since  it was  failing regardless  of memtest  after  a few
hours' uptime. 

> 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.

On my version the default tests (1-8 or something like that) take only
a few  minutes, if you  enable all the  tests you have  something like
half a day's worth. -chris



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