ASUS motherboards and memtest86

[Warren Togami]

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