A new memtest program included in next Fedora ?

Martin Andersen martin at al-data.dk
Tue Jan 20 11:26:58 UTC 2004


Hi!

I noticed the new program memtest86+, based on memtest86, which
have not released since 22. May 2002.
Maybe this will be part of Fedora 2 ?

*Enhancement in v1.0 (Based on Memtest86 V3.0) :*

   * Lots of bug-fixes, works now with all AMD64.
   * Added detection for Athlon 64 / Opteron
   * Added detection for latest Athlon XP (including Barton)
   * Added detection for latest Pentium 4 (including Prescott)
   * Added detection for SiS735/740/745/748/755/645/655
   * Added detection for ATi Radeon 9100 IGP (RS300)
   * Added detection for nVidia nForce/nForce2(400/Ultra)/nForce3/nForce3-S
   * Added detection for VIA KT266(A)/333/KT400(A)/KT600/PT800/PT880/K8T800
   * Added detection for i865P/PE/G/i875P/E7500/E7501/E7205
   * ECC initialization & ECC polling added for all AMD64 CPUs
   * ECC initialization & ECC polling added for i875P and E7501 & E7205
   * Added complete advanced settings detection for i875P, AMD64 and
     nForce2.
   * Added partial advanced settings detection for KT266(A)/KT333.
   * Corrected ECC Error not counted as a global error anymore.
   * Added a "safe-mode" (press F1 when memtest86+ loading) in case of
     freeze.
   * Source code now compatible with gcc 3


Webpage: http://www.memtest.org/


Martin.





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