Albretch Mueller wrote: > Probably one of you have managed to run memtest86 on a 64-bit Intel > box (hp-xw6600) Yes. Not infrequently. > I downloaded and burned memtest86 Version 4.0b (Server) (26-Oct-2011) > onto a CD, but when I boot up the box from the CD all I see is: The original memtest86 was stale for many years. It was unmaintained. Therefore a fork of it arose as the memtest86+ project. They were very similar but they vary in what hardware support works and what doesn't. Then recently a project calling itself memtest86 came alive again and apparently made a major rewrite of the old memtest86 code. I think that means there are effectively three different major forks of memory testing projects calling themselves memtest86* names. You might want to report your problems to the upstream. It seems reasonable to think it might be a bug. To keep moving try this one. It works for me: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso Or as Darac Marjal wrote installing it as a Debian package works very well. It also works very nicely when set up as a PXE boot so that it can be run as a diagnostic from a network boot diskless. Bob
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