[TriLUG] Debian box Just stops.

[Glenn Hennessee]

You can also download it from http://www.memtest86.com/ as an iso image 
(it's small) that boots from the cd and automatically runs. There's also a 
lot of good descriptions about the program and troubleshooting on the web 
site. I have used it several times and it did point out that a problem 
system did indeed have bad memory (an HP box). Replacing the RAM with new 
made the random crashes go away, or at least as much as they will go away 
with Windows.

glenn


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> memtest is a boot-time utility, found on (among other things) the FC2 Disc 1. 
> Simply boot from the cd and enter "memtest86" at the boot prompt (without 
> quotes of course) to run it.  I believe it is also available on the Ultimate 
> Boot CD.
>
> HTH,
> ~Brian
>
> Hugh Crissman wrote:
>> What command did you use to run your mem test? I just man'd memtest and did 
>> not come up with anything?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> H. Crissman
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