* memtest86
@ Igor Gueths
` memtest86 Luke Yelavich
` memtest86 Gene Collins
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From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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Hi all. I am suspecting bad ram in one of my machines as a cause of why I can't install Slackware...Or rather, why it bombs out fater attempting to install Less. And I don't think its the
installation media, since I don't hear the drive spinning up and down...Which would be the drive doing read attempts and failing. So I'm running Memtest86 on my box now, which has 1 GB of some
what I think is shitty Kingston PC3200 DDR SDRAM. Memtest86 so far has been running for sevreal days, and I'm not sure how long its supposed to take. Its on pass 158 out of what I think is
1024, assuming every MB is being tested individually. Also, if there are any errors, would they be displayed after all the testing is complete? Or will they scroll by as the tests were
running?
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* Re: memtest86
memtest86 Igor Gueths
@ ` Luke Yelavich
` memtest86 Cheryl Homiak
` memtest86 Gene Collins
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Luke Yelavich @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:04:14AM EST, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. I am suspecting bad ram in one of my machines as a cause of why I can't install Slackware...Or rather, why it bombs out fater attempting to install Less. And I don't think its the
> installation media, since I don't hear the drive spinning up and down...Which would be the drive doing read attempts and failing. So I'm running Memtest86 on my box now, which has 1 GB of some
> what I think is shitty Kingston PC3200 DDR SDRAM. Memtest86 so far has been running for sevreal days, and I'm not sure how long its supposed to take. Its on pass 158 out of what I think is
> 1024, assuming every MB is being tested individually. Also, if there are any errors, would they be displayed after all the testing is complete? Or will they scroll by as the tests were
> running?
Any errors that memtest86 finds will scroll past on the screen.
Luke
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` memtest86 Luke Yelavich
@ ` Cheryl Homiak
` memtest86 Igor Gueths
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From: Cheryl Homiak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
You could send the output to a text file I imagine.
but I also think it has a switch to make a log, doesn't it/
If I try to do
memtest86 all
memtest gets killed. don't know if that's a sign of a problem or just
means I shouldn't try to test it all at once.
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Cheryl
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` memtest86 Cheryl Homiak
@ ` Igor Gueths
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From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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Hmm...I can actually get a command line to pass options to it? Bc all that happened when I booted the floppy was that it just started running.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:56:19PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> You could send the output to a text file I imagine.
> but I also think it has a switch to make a log, doesn't it/
> If I try to do
> memtest86 all
> memtest gets killed. don't know if that's a sign of a problem or just
> means I shouldn't try to test it all at once.
>
>
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* Re: memtest86
memtest86 Igor Gueths
` memtest86 Luke Yelavich
@ ` Gene Collins
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From: Gene Collins @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi Igor. You are making an unwarranted assumption. Memtest86 will run
infinitely until told to stop. Reading the man page before using a
diagnostic utility is always a good thing. The fact that you are in the
158th pass means that you have scanned all your memory 158 times.
Gene
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>Hi all. I am suspecting bad ram in one of my machines as a cause of why I can'
t install Slackware...Or rather, why it bombs out fater attempting to install L
ess. And I don't think its the
>installation media, since I don't hear the drive spinning up and down...Which
would be the drive doing read attempts and failing. So I'm running Memtest86 on
my box now, which has 1 GB of some
>what I think is shitty Kingston PC3200 DDR SDRAM. Memtest86 so far has been ru
nning for sevreal days, and I'm not sure how long its supposed to take. Its on
pass 158 out of what I think is
>1024, assuming every MB is being tested individually. Also, if there are any e
rrors, would they be displayed after all the testing is complete? Or will they
scroll by as the tests were
>running?
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>Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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* memtest86
@ Igor Gueths
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From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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Hi all. I have to run Memtest86 on a couple of machines, just to make sure there are no bad chips; and if there are, I can isolate them using badram. Right now I'm running it on my LFS
desktop, and output is being dumped to /dev/ttyS0 with no way to interrupt it. As a result, I missed a single error in the first test. As with most anything, I always believe there is a better
way to do something than however it's currently being done; does anyone know a good way to obtain the capability to review Memtest86's output? The only other way I can think to do this is to
connect my laptop to the serial port, and have Minicom connect across the line to the other machine. However, I currently lack a null modem cable. Am I pretty much SOL as far as that goes, or
did I miss something? Thanks for any input.
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