test memory chips with Knoppix

[Joshua Kwan]

On 12/08/2005 10:13 AM, Tom Simons wrote:
> I have a bunch of memory sticks, some of which are bad (we replaced
> all the memory from a server that kept dying from memory errors).  I'd
> like to find the good sticks by testing them on an old PowerEdge 1300.
>  I can insert single sticks at a time, booting Knoppix 4.0 in text
> mode from cd, but what commands can I use to test?

Check out Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com)

You can't run it from within Knoppix, but you should be able to get a
Memtest86 boot-CD or floppy image.

Hope that helps,

-- 
Joshua Kwan