testing memory

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 25 June 2004 09:01 am, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:50:00AM -0400, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> > Is there some tool or method for testing memory?
> > I'm getting general kernel panics and I've gone
> > though all of my hardware replacing and removing
> > and all I have left is the memory.
>
> A good standalone tool on Intel-class machines is memtest86.  You can
> google for it; a specific location I found is

http://www.memtest86.com 

It's a really cool software. The latest version comes with a bootable iso, 
just burn it to CD and boot from it, it'll run the test directly. The webpage 
is also helpful to read first. 

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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