The memory tester is called memtest86. It requires that you boot it from a
floppy (it comes as an image you can dd to a disk as well as source) because
it has to run in x86 real mode - i.e. none of that 'memory segmentation or
paging' shenanigans. It works, but make sure that you can leave it running
overnight !! I tried it when I had 256M ram, and after 4 hours I decided that
it had been long enough since I'd checked my email :) Of course, it could be
that my memory bus has been running *really* slow...
I get my slockets tomorrow... heh heh...
Glen
On Saturday 29 December 2001 23:11, you wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2001 08:36, you wrote:
> > After months of telling my Son how wonderful Linux is. He finally
> > asked me to help him install it. We attempted to install it on his
> > machine, yesterday. And know he thinks his Dad is crazy :(
>
> (Clipped)
>
> > Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Where/what can we
> > check, so some day he may join the racks of the free?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
>
> Mike ... it sounds like time for a seance!
>
> 1) check the hardware how-to for his hard drive on the off chance he
> has a "known flaky"
> 2) suspect his ram and give it a thorough check out. There is a
> product on freshmeat.net that will do this. Please forgive me for
> teasing ... but I have forgotten its name.
> 3) what choices are you making in re the install ?
> 4) are his fans functioning?
> 5) what happens when you use a different browser? Older versions of
> NS were somewhat notorious for locking X up. Although the whole
> machine was NOT, in fact, down (did you try ctrl+alt+Fn? to get to a
> different terminal and just kill / restart X?) anything further on
> the original terminal was out of the question.
> 6) check that stuff out and also post "the vitals" next time.
>
> Bill
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