http://www.memtest86.com/ is the new site for MemTest86. I have found it to be very efficient at proving that the cheapo DIMMs that my father bought (that passed the standard BIOS mem check) weren't much much chop.
Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAT hp.com -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:mlh@;zip.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 5:33 PM To: Chris Rennie Cc: SLUG mailing list Subject: Re: [SLUG] Maintenance tool On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:18AM +1100, Chris Rennie wrote: > Hi, > In the olden days I used Norton Utilities to check and exercise the > various HW components of PCs. It was a great sanity check when > confronted with a machine reportedly "does funny things, sometimes". > So is there anything similar for Linux? fsck is the only maintenance > tool I know. Chris Off the top of my head I can recall memtest86 and a repeated kernel compile being good tests of hardware. So I did a google search and got this which give you more info: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw1/ It would be nice for someone to put a whole bunch of these tools on a bootable cdrom to just automate it. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
