Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
no i believe there is actually a memory check command you can use from the initial boot cd if simply change to text and know the command. i only recall it in assing but it may have been on this list, so a look in the archives may may find it. On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:58, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi -- Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue... shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:15, you wrote: no i believe there is actually a memory check command you can use from the initial boot cd if simply change to text and know the command. i only recall it in assing but it may have been on this list, so a look in the archives may may find it. On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:58, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Look for memtest86 or memtester on the CDs the Second one IIRC. It is a DOS program I think and runs from a floppy at boot up if you want it to. Or if need be do a search on google and there is a free download out there. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:48 pm, dfox wrote: The utility is calleed memtest86, so google for it. I think there is a disk image on the Mandrake CD but I'm not sure. If y'all have ML 8.x to 8.2, a memtest86-??mdk..rpm is on your Cd's. If you install this rpm, it'll add memtest86 as a boot option. I've had problems usin it this way tho. It's also much better to test hardware without loading your OS/file systems. Specially Linux/ext2, and any M$ Windoze product. File system corruption and/or Winblows registry corruption can occur. So, however you get memtest86, I'd advise copying it to a floppy and booting that, rather than booting to it on your harddrive from lilo. The tar.gz version has an 'installer' to do this for you, just read the doc. Mandrake's rpm will put a memtest...bin file in /boot, edit and run lilo to add it as a boot option. You can copy that or any other memtest.bin to a floppy by doin this in a term dd if=memtest-2.8.bin of=/dev/fd0 (this assumes you're in the dir where you have memtest.bin, and that your floppy is fd0 ) OTOH, 'mprime -m, 17' (Prime95's torture test) is a much better cpu/cache/ram tester, but it still won't prove your hardware as well as Cpuburn will http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ Any software test of ram/memory is not entirely feasible. Only very expensive hardware test beds, that're specific to the ram being tested are accurate viable tests. Cpuburn will, like most other software testers, stress check the cpu/cache/ram all at once. Faulty systems can get by memtest86 fairly easily, even the Prime95/mprime torture test won't find all difficiencies ... but if Cpuburn doesn't find 'em, they're probly aren't any, ie 'bulletproof'. That's why I advise testing cpu/cache/ram from a memtest86 floppy first, keeping your OS/filesystem offline. If all's well, then try mprime's torture test. If you pass that, go for Cpuburn. Until a system passes Cpuburn, any problems, present or future, could be more likely be hardware than software, or at least you'll never really know or is it somthing else ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else
I do not know of Ram checkers for Linux but I do know of one for windows. Go to www.simmtester.com for Doc Memory?. Its a little confusing and works from a DOS prompt. But its free I believe and its Time-crippled. Try it, it may help. Femme Hanan Shargi wrote: Thank you shane,, this memory check is it on windows ? I suppose it must be on windows ? since linux is not installed yet if you can give me a hint where is this utility I can go and look for it ( BIOS , DOS ?? ) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
