Hi, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:34:01 -0600 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 > Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way of testing the RAM? > > a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the > minimal. at the isolinux (boot:) prompt, just type memtest-86 and > patiently await the completion of just one test. But always remember that, given the hypothesis that the RAM is working OK, all memtest can do is to _negate_ this hypothesis. It can never verify that hypothesis. So it's always worth to start memtest -- after all, it might fail and you know for sure that RAM is bad (or memory timing or whatever, but it's faulty hardware then). But if it doesn't fail that doesn't mean that RAM is alright! -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
