[plug] strangely crashing PPro [long]

[Leon Blackwell]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:45:41AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> I have read that most memtest programs don't strain the memory as much as
> doing real work does.

I can't speak for "most", but memtest86 has detected at least three dud
RAM SIMMs/DIMMs for me -- two of which passed all other (BIOS, etc)
tests.  It also has the benefit of running in an OS-free environment, so
things such as swap and multiple processes don't affect results.

Next to PSU issues, memory failures have been my second most common
cause of hardware "misbehaviour".


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