[Tfug] Memtest question

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 7 Dec 2009 at 7:58, earljviolet at deserthowler.com  wrote:

> I have 2 computers that seem to be working OK.  I decided to run Memtest
> on boh of them.  I use Ubuntu and run Memtest86 from Grub on both.
> 
> One is a Dell Poweredge 500 SC with I GB ECC memory.  I just began setting
> this one up as a small printer and file server.  Memtest shows problems
> immediately.  Is this a problem with EDD memory and Memtest?
> 
> The other is a P4 with DDR memory.  It doesn't indicate errors but only
> runs to 20% of the testing and locks.  I have uptimes of 4 or 5 days with
> this machine.  There is an occasional total lock up with DVDs using VLC;
> this is usually with a bad DVD.  Could this be the DDR memory?

What version of memtest?  Have you tried the latest from 
http://www.memtest.org/?  They have bootable ISOs there.  Newest is 4.0x from 
22/09/2009

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