Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2008 00:09, Russ Fineman wrote:
Does any one no how dependable the memory diagnostic is that comes on the opensues 10.3 dvd is/ My production environment crashed yesterday after some updates. After muck looking and reinstalling 10.3 I ram the memory diagnostics. It is reporting errors and before I go and by new memory I wanted to ask about its reliability.
There are two ways to ask / answer this:
1) If Memtest86+ reports no errors, is the RAM error-free?
2) If Memtest86+ reports errors, does the RAM have errors?
Question (1) cannot be definitively answered in the affirmative.
Question (2) can!
In other words, if Memtest86+ reports no errors when testing your RAM, you cannot definitively conclude there are no errors in your RAM, only that Memtest86+ did not detect any erroneous behavior during its tests.
On the other hand, if Memtest86+ reports an error, you can be quite certain that there is an error in you RAM (or in your CPU or in your chipset or that there was an unusually high cosmic ray secondary burst in your vicinity while you were running the test...)
Welcome to the "real world." (Not the MTV series...)
Thanks for any help. -- Russ
Randall Schulz
Hope this gets thru as I do not see my own posts on the Alt news group. I think I may have found the a bad card. I am down to two GB and if I enter run level three I do not appear to hang up my mouse and keyboard. This is with the 3rd GB card removed. Still need to test if grub boot to runlevel 5 works with hang up. At present with 2 GB Memtest86 is no longer reporting errors. Thanks for all the responses. -- Russ Registered Linux user #441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org