[opensource] Boot/diagnostics/utility CD

paul c betts bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu
Mon Dec 11 19:48:47 EST 2006


> memtest is the best software memory tester I've come across, but beware
> that it is far from perfect.  We have a number of comptuers for which it
> always fails.  Its a known problem on some memory chip sets.  So be some
> what skeptical.

MemTest86+ (http://www.memtest.org) is better wrt this, it supports more
chipsets (the guy who maintains it runs a French PC review site, so he has
a ton of hardware laying around)

-- 
Paul Betts <bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu>



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