Check for Bad Memory with memtest86

July 8th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in

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Anonymous's picture

Does this stuff really have to be video?

On August 7th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:

Does this stuff really have to be video? A text article is much easier to quickly scan for the meat.

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memory testing applications

On July 8th, 2009 brians018883 says:

memtest86+ is also available, its based on memtest86 3.0, supports newer hardware, and includes various improvements.

In addition, there is memtester, which runs within linux but it cannot test the whole RAM amount.

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Advanced Clustering Breakin

On July 8th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:

Anyone using memtest and having a 64bit-capable machine might also want to check out Breakin. It's a memory testing and system stress testing utility designed for high performance supercomputer beowulf cluster nodes. It also works on your grandmother's machine, provided its 64bit. It's Free Software, and has provoked instabilities that memtest simply didn't reveal. Read about and download the ISO or netboot package from http://www.advancedclustering.com/software/breakin.html

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