test memory chips with Knoppix

[Michael Cheselka]

Knoppix used to have memtest.  Porbably still does.  Look at the
options when in grub.  Linux and BSD can run with bad ram if you
mark it off.  Never had to do it but ram is so cheap these days and
it's likely the corruption would spread, so...

On 12/8/05, Joshua Kwan <joshk at triplehelix.org> wrote:
> 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,
>
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