slow last 128MB of RAM in a 2GB system?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Apr 13 14:22:35 EDT 2007


On Apr 12, 2007, at 15:24, Paul Lussier wrote:

> I would move up to memtest86plus.  memtest86 is rather old and doesn't
> test a lot of things in newer memory (I forget what, but the webpage
> explains far better than I ever could).  We switched over to using
> that and began finding lots of problematic memory that memtest86
> passed on.

Thanks for the recommendation - a new version was just released in  
January and I was using a much older version.

I downloaded the ISO (aside: smallest, fastest-booting ISO ever) and  
ran it for 6 hours without any errors, but this was important to check.

-Bill

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