Hello everone: As I'm not a techie, this may appear to be a stupid question but, as someone once said, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. I'm running SuSE 9.1 professional 64-bit on an AMD Athlon 64 on an Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard. I'm currently running the memory test [ Memtest-86 v3.1 ] found on CD # 1 [ 32-bit package ]. Given that the CD is for the 32-bit program, is this test valid on the 64-bit hardware or does memtest simply test the hardware regardless of the processing power of the CPU? In other words, does the fact that it is a 64-bit processor invalidate the test results? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike
Mike Roy
I'm running SuSE 9.1 professional 64-bit on an AMD Athlon 64 on an Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard. I'm currently running the memory test [ Memtest-86 v3.1 ] found on CD # 1 [ 32-bit package ]. Given that the CD is for the 32-bit program,
Memtest86 is a standalone program, it doesn't run under Linux. Therefore I think the fact that it is on this CD doesn't imply any 32bit limit. BTW, the documentation says: <cite> Enhancements in v3.1a - Added processor detection for newer AMD processors </cite> I don't know if it can test e.g. 16 GiB RAM but it worked OK with a dual Opteron machine with 4 GiB RAM in my case. Well, the machine crashed but that was what I needed since the motherboard was bad.
In other words, does the fact that it is a 64-bit processor invalidate the test results?
I don't think so. It may not test everything (If I remember it right, only 3.5 GiB of 4 GiB were tested by Memtest86 in my case) but when it finds a problem then you can be almost sure the problem is real. -- A.M.
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