On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Bob McConnell wrote:
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And make sure you button the cabinet back up, with all covers in place and put it back on the rack where it normally sits. Running this test with the case open or sitting in free air is a waste of time unless that is how the system usually operates. All memory testing has to be done under normal working conditions to get the maximum benefit.
Bob McConnell N2SPP
Continuing on with my memory testing saga ;)
The Memtest86+ program I'm using is from the UltimateBootCD.
Could it be Memtest86+ 4.10 that is corrupted?
Reason being it locked up after running for 25 minutes. There were no patterns being written to memory, and no errors on the screen. The '+' was flashing but that's all.
So I did a warm reboot, and started Memtest86+ again, and this time it did not even fully load into memory and start running. I just had an incomplete Memtest86+ screen sitting there doing nothing. Should have took a picture - sorry.
Next time rebooted it ran fine. Something really weird is going on here.
I'm now running my version of Memtest86+ (4.00) that I downloaded and md5sum checked myself. This is the version of Memtest86+ I originally used to check the memory in 2006 when the memory was purchased.
These recent memory tests were done with the Memtest86+ from the UBCD, as I could not find the CD I burnt. Dug it out now :)
Regards,
Keith