Dear Luggers,
This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only does the function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad.
The problems with some RAMs is that they pass the bios test but make the system hang before starting the OS completely. It wastes a lot of time of the engineer to locate the problem as it could be due to a bad HDD, IDE cable or corrupted system files or RAM. Replacing the RAM is the only option available for testing it. The benchmarking programs that are available are platform dependent and need an OS to be loaded.
If such a bootable floppy was available to test the RAM in full simulated operation then this would be very handy. Since the bios has drivers for the keyboard and floppy, no other drivers would be really needed and only the small RAM testing program would be needed on the bootable floppy. In future we can have other bootable floppies that test the CPU, motherboard and other devices *without loading any OS*. It would make life easier for the engineer.
Regards,
Rony.
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:02 am, you wrote:
Dear Luggers,
This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only does the function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad.
i dont have the link - but it is available for download, google should be able to find it. i have used it (only problem is that a full test takes upto 24 hours)
regards kg
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in On Behalf Of Rony Bill Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:02 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only does
the
function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad.
check out www.simmtester.com
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On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:36, Kiran Ghag wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in On Behalf Of Rony Bill Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:02 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
This is on topic. Has anyone developed a bootable floppy that only does
the
function of testing the RAM to simulate optimum operation conditions and give results if the RAM is good or bad.
check out www.simmtester.com
Also memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org)
The Ultimate Boot CD (ultimatebootcd.com) is a treasure trove of test programs and suites.
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