9 Sep
2008
9 Sep
'08
7:21 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
It even comes burned into the ROM on some newish PCs.
Peace... Sridhar
Try running memtest86 on the machine. [...]
I
attempted to search for any WXP programs named *mem*.type and
*test*.type with type being exe, com, bat or lnk. I found only
mem.exe which only seem to work for DOS. Can anyone suggest a RAM testing option?
memtest86 would be my suggestion too.
I'm not sure what "WXP" is, but perhaps what you're missing is that
memtest86 is a completely standalone program, one that runs sans
operating system (as indeed it semi-must, since it wants to mess with
things not normally accessible except to the OS, such as memory
controllers and memory error interrupts). Some Linux distros - the
Fedora name comes to mind - provide it as a boot option on their
install CD images, which may be the simplest way for you to get it.