Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:35:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > but its true the only way to really test virtually all the memory is > > to write the memory tester as a OpenFirmware client and boot it > > directly -- no OS at all. >

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:35:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > but its true the only way to really test virtually all the memory is > to write the memory tester as a OpenFirmware client and boot it > directly -- no OS at all. > What if you have two or more ram chips and rotate them between memo

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:27:47PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > >Has anyone else tried memtest? It compiles on my potato ppc box, 7200 and > >g3, but it runs under the OS, and only checks memory that is mlock able. > > Thanks for mentioning this. I'm running it righ

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

Mike Fedyk wrote: >Has anyone else tried memtest? It compiles on my potato ppc box, 7200 and >g3, but it runs under the OS, and only checks memory that is mlock able. Thanks for mentioning this. I'm running it right now on my 8500. It seems to work fine, although it was only able to mlock 50 M

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:48:25PM +1000, Ross Hamilton wrote: > According to yesterday's Tidbits, the utility below will advise > whether your installed memory will pass muster with new firmware > updates from Apple (which have apparently refused to recognise some > DIMMs): > >

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

According to yesterday's Tidbits, the utility below will advise whether your installed memory will pass muster with new firmware updates from Apple (which have apparently refused to recognise some DIMMs): Probably this is just some packaged, G4-centric vend

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:28:57AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I'm buying a new DIMM for my Mac 8500, and would like to give it a > thorough test when it arrives in a couple days. It wouldn't be a bad > idea to test the memory I've got before I install the new DIMM, as it is > old and has

Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

I'm buying a new DIMM for my Mac 8500, and would like to give it a thorough test when it arrives in a couple days. It wouldn't be a bad idea to test the memory I've got before I install the new DIMM, as it is old and has been in heavy use for years. I used memtest86 on a 128 MB PC133 memory modul