Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Gingery wrote:
>
> > So I'll leave it up to you. There should be info at least in
> > a FAQ somewhere that indicates that bad RAM is not something
> > that can be ruled out until tested adequately, and perhaps a
> > checklist of
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Gingery wrote:
> So I'll leave it up to you. There should be info at least in
> a FAQ somewhere that indicates that bad RAM is not something
> that can be ruled out until tested adequately, and perhaps a
> checklist of symptoms that (virtually) ALWAYS
On 18 Feb 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
issued forth a missive of approximately 3647 bytes,
entitled "Re: Recommended addition to FAQ (Troubleshooting) ",
the text of which in full or in part is quoted here:
-} The situation here, I hate to say, is that you were s
On 18-Feb-00 Darryl Okahata wrote:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've used all kinds of software memory checkers, from "CheckIt" to
>> highly proprietary packages that cost even more money, and the only
>> thing they managed to convince me of is that swapping in known-goo
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used all kinds of software memory checkers, from "CheckIt" to
> highly proprietary packages that cost even more money, and the only
> thing they managed to convince me of is that swapping in known-good
> memory is the best and fastest way out
The situation here, I hate to say, is that you were simply very lucky
in having a software memory tester show you anything at all.
If your experience had been more typical, you would have run memtest86
and it would have declared your memory to be free of errors. Then
you'd have gone right on hav
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Gingery wrote:
> I can't praise highly enough, two software packages:
>
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
>
> and
>
> http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/
Sweet! I never knew that I've wanted one for all of these years unti
I recently installed FreeBSD on my daughter's machine, remotely.
She'd been on Windows3 since growing up and moving away from my
NeXT, so "UNIX" wasn't a scary word to her, and she was getting
tired of "Windows95 or better" on anything she was interested in,
and certainly wanted "better" if she w
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