RE: Adventures in near(?)-futility

Basically, it makes for a good burn-in test.  If the machine locks up or
behaves erratically as a result, you know it's very likely a hardware
issue vs. software.

EDO definitely costs more/MB than 'modern' RAM like PC3200, but the
price/stick still isn't too bad.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php?page_id=43&sortby=popular-
&vendors%5B%5D=0&popup1%5B%5D=0&popup1_attr_id%5B%5D=207&popup2%5B%5D=50
%3A210&popup2_attr_id%5B%5D=210&popup3%5B%5D=0&popup3_attr_id%5B%5D=206&
popup4%5B%5D=0&lo_p=0&hi_p=0&form_keyword=&sortby= Now, if you still go
down the path of replacing the RAM, be sure you replace the appropriate
number of sticks.  Your machine probably uses matched pairs or even
quads so you may have to replace as many as all 4 sticks to get the BIOS
to see the new RAM.

Another good CD for test apps can be downlaoded from
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ 

John A. Jones
Americas Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:39 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] 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


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