On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just picked up a new ASUS laptop and first thing i tried was to just > boot from a ubuntu 11.04 dvd and do a memory test. but the memory > test didn't do anything -- the memtest+ screen came up, but no > testing, it just sat there.
memtest86? I found that older versions don't deal with newer Intel CPUs well e.g. i5. Get Memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/) put it on a USB drive and try that. Brett _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
