Hello, David Kelly!
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:41:17PM -0600, you wrote:
> "Antonio Carlos Pina" writes:
> > David, I have a little program (I don't recall who wrote it, sorry)
> > that tests memory, stressing it. I can tell that it hangs a bad
> > machine (cpu or bus or memory) in 2 or 3 minutes. It fits in a floppy
> > and it is a DOS program. If you want a copy, I can send it to you.
>
> Yeah. But. Remember a memory test program can not prove memory is good.
> It can only prove memory is bad. And then only if it happens to be very
> bad. Memory can and does fail when certian sequences of events happen.
> The trick is to reproduce that sequence.
There is a program called testmem.com (for DOS, sure) which tests memory very
good. I know, here is not much DOS-lovers, but it is the only program I found
which gives true results. It is so small that it can be loaded into L1 cache
so, no RAM access occurs during memory test except by this prog.
--
Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/
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