On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:25:59 EST, Lennart Sorensen said: > Personally I just don't bother with memtest anymore. The only thing it > tells you is that you have errors or that you might have errors but it > didn't find them. It never tells you that you do not have errors and it > often does miss that you have errors since marginal memory is more > likely to fail under cpu load it seems which memtest doesn't do.
It's been quite some time since I've gone the "run memtest for 24 hours" route. However, I still recommend that for odd cases, you let memtest make *one* cycle through its tests - that's only an hour-ish, and if it hits something, then you *know* you have some hardware issues to deal with.
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