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 been in heavy use for years.
stick it in a G4 with apple's recent firmware update ;-) > I used memtest86 on a 128 MB PC133 memory module in my PC and it fails > the test, although it passes the BIOS startup memory test. I'd like you could wire up a dead rat to a dimm socket and the PC BIOS memory test would pass it just fine. > something like that for PowerPC Macs. > > Memtest86 is in the format of an x86 Linux kernel, you can boot of it > with lilo or GNU GRUB or make a boot floppy out of it. The best test > for a Mac would do something like that. Alternatively, maybe Apple has > a memory test tool that one can get? > > Do you know of such a beast? unfortunatly i think no such thing exists, it would be possible to make something like memtest86 for powerpcs i think it would just have to be an OpenFirmware coff executable (or i suppose ELF if you have a newworld) you would then stick it on a dos floppy for oldworlds or stick it in the bootstrap partition on a newworld. then boot it directly from OF. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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