Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 18:13, Rony Bill wrote:

Hello Luggers,

I tried the softwares for a bootable RAM tester floppy from both the sites below.

http://www.memtest86.com/

www.simmtester.com

The simmtester worked excellently. The memtest one hung my (good) comp half way while testing. So the simmtester one is worth keeping in your handy floppy collection, to check for bad RAMs.

Not quite. repeat the test. If it hangs again something is definetly not right with ur pc. Probable instability in access timings at alleviated tempratures / clock skew / nisy psu /etc.

I have found memtest86 to be vry good - if the pc fails in 24 hrs running the tests, it will not work reliable (no reboots for 6 months = reliable)

Regards,

Rony.