Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (314 mails)

[Brad Bourn <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is memtest for amd64 supposed to work?

I am having intermittant trouble with my amd64 machine (running SuSE 9.1).

I am wanting to verify the memory is good.

I was able to boot to a mindi iso  (from mondoarchive.org) that has memtest, 
lucifer, mprime and a few other utilities on it.  I can run everthing EXCEPT 
memtest. It reboots the machine when it try's to start.  Is this proof of bad 
ram?

I decided to look for a amd64 specific version.  I used yast to check my dvd's 
and sure enough, it is there and says it is for 64-bit.  I installed it and 
added a menu option for grub kernel(drive)/boot/memtest.bin

it is able to find the bin and ~try~ to boot from it but gets some sort of 
interrupt error.
 

Is this supposed to work?  Is there a better memory tester?


Thanks in advance

B-)