Northbridge Machine Check during package installation (Fedora yarrow)

[Gene Czarcinski]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:10, Stefan Schroepfer wrote:
> Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > I believe there is a "new" version of memtest86 (memtest86+ ?) available
> > in Fedora development which supports the x86_64.
>
> Thanks Ashley and Gene for suggesting memtest86. I had running the
> original memtest86 v3.0 (as found on a SuSE 9.0 / x86 boot medium) on
> the machine in question for 20+ hours from yesterday afternoon on ---
> with no errors. In case my first impression isn't wrong, memtest86+
> merely has some AMD64 detection features, but is still a pure x86
> (32 bit) software, correct?

Don't know.  I would hope that it supports the full 64 bit addressing for 
larger amounts of ram ... otherwise I cannot see why it would be for the 
x86_64.  If it does really run in 64 bit mode, then it might be worth your 
time to give it a try since this might exercize hardware that will not be 
used in 32 bit mode ... even if you only have an amount of ram which can be 
handled in 32 bit mode.

Gene