On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 1:41 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:22 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > <snip> > > > I know y'all believe memtest86 is _THE_ test, an I confess I > > run it first too. But it's a weak test. It sort'a sux. Better is > > mprime's #17, the torture test. Harder still, the acid test is, > > cpuburn's 'burnK7'. One or two passes with memtest is a breeze, > > run mprime's torture test thru test #1800 or so, run burnK7 for > > 25 minutes ..... then you know your hardware is stable. So far I > > am with an XP core at 2301, CL2.5-2-2-2 DDR427. > > Tom, I know you remember when I was having the spontaneous reboot > problems? Well, you're right about memtest - I ran it overnight 2/3 > different times and never found anything - cpuburn....now thats > *another* story! > Care to tell us more? My granddaughter's 1-year-old (win98) box suffers from recurrent problems, and I'm wondering if this test would help. So - what's involved in running it, how risky is it, and what sort of reporting does it give?
Anne
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