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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-)
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Brad Bourn wrote:
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-)
Use memtest86+ from www.memtest.org. That's what I had to use on my AMD64 boxes to check memory. The memtest (not the plus version) never worked on them, it would lock up. John
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the new (3.2) one DID work. made 158 passes over the weekend with 0 errors. Guess ram isn't the problem! hehehe thanks, B-) On Friday 18 March 2005 06:44 pm, John Scott wrote:
Use memtest86+ from www.memtest.org. That's what I had to use on my AMD64 boxes to check memory. The memtest (not the plus version) never worked on them, it would lock up.
John
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