RE: Adventures in near(?)-futility

Yah, there's always a cynic in the crowd!  ;-)

And then he said, "But Microsoft is unlike any other vendor in the
universe."

Oh stop, enough preaching to the choir!

Anyway, took John's advice, and ran MemTest86 overnight; no problems showed
on the standard tests after 14 passes.  Running the extended tests today
while I'm at work.  Based on the web site documentation, it *sounds* like
this is about as thorough a memory tester as one's gonna find anywhere.

John, the Mersenne.org link:  I understand that this app probably exercises
the CPU pretty well, but how does one know whether it finds problems with
the CPU?  It's not a "tester" per se.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Tom Liotta
>
> Hmmm... of course, that _would_ make Windows seem a bit nicer if what MS
> says is true. If it was just some marketecture b.s. as it sounds like,
> it'd just be a way to divert attention. But I'm _sure_ no vendor would
> ever do anything like that.
>
> OTOH, a google on "ram execute write read cycle" brings up quite a few
> non-MS technical docs that don't seem to show a significant difference
> in memory itself between normal memory reads/writes and what happens
> during a fetch/execute cycle...
>
> Tom Liotta
>
>
> Dan Bale wrote:
> > That's what I would think, as well, but M$ seems to go out of
> its way to say
> > otherwise.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > db