ASUS motherboards and memtest86
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Fri May 21 01:41:42 UTC 2004
Mark Fuller wrote:
> Just an FYI. I installed FC2 on an ASUS P4C800 E Deluxe. No problems.
> Buslink (dvrd412rd, has a "Lite-on", ATI Radeon 9000, Netgear lan card.)
>
> memtest86 is a handy utility to run from the installer "boot:" prompt. I
> thought I was having the ASUS problem mentioned for P4P800 boards. But, when
> I ran memtest86, it immediately began showing memory errors. If I had "quick
> test" disabled in my bios's boot options, I would have seen I had bad
> memory.
>
Not necessarily. Most BIOS memory testers even in "SLOW" mode are very
incomplete and do not found memory problems that memtest86+ does.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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