Has anyone tried this program? I have been having random issues
including a disk that was wiped out after an update.
Errors were reported. I decided to run memtes86 from DVD. It runs
perfectly until Test 7 starts and then it reports thousands of errors
staring 0x08100000. My ram is 4 2GB DDR3 memoey modules which have run
for four years. It does not matter which slot they are in or how many
are plugged in. I feel it a problem with memtest86, but not sure when to
report it or what version it is. The version tha installs with YaST is
4.20-7.1.1-x86_64 from openSUSE-12.2-OSS repo. The binary it install
goes into/Boot by default. I am also wondering if it can be put on a
thumb drive. Readme say a floppy or a folder. No floppy on my system.
An help would be greatly appreciated. I will report this on Bugzilla.
> Has anyone tried this program? I have been having random issues
> including a disk that was wiped out after an update.
>
> Errors were reported. I decided to run memtes86 from DVD. It runs
> perfectly until Test 7 starts and then it reports thousands of errors
> staring 0x08100000. My ram is 4 2GB DDR3 memoey modules which have run
> for four years. It does not matter which slot they are in or how many
> are plugged in. I feel it a problem with memtest86, but not sure when to
> report it or what version it is. The version tha installs with YaST is
> 4.20-7.1.1-x86_64 from openSUSE-12.2-OSS repo. The binary it install
> goes into/Boot by default. I am also wondering if it can be put on a
> thumb drive. Readme say a floppy or a folder. No floppy on my system.
>
> An help would be greatly appreciated. I will report this on Bugzilla.
I would suggest that you do some slot-swapping with your RAM modules. If
you have, in fact, a bad RAM stick it will show the same address if you swap
in the same 64-bit pair but will move when you swap it into the other pair.
From the bare results you give it’s far more likely to be a bum memory than
anything else. Not surprising - that’s why the memtest86 utility is so
prominently carried.
Will Honea wrote:
> Russ Fineman wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried this program? I have been having random issues
>> including a disk that was wiped out after an update.
>>
>> Errors were reported. I decided to run memtes86 from DVD. It runs
>> perfectly until Test 7 starts and then it reports thousands of errors
>> staring 0x08100000. My ram is 4 2GB DDR3 memoey modules which have run
>> for four years. It does not matter which slot they are in or how many
>> are plugged in. I feel it a problem with memtest86, but not sure when to
>> report it or what version it is. The version tha installs with YaST is
>> 4.20-7.1.1-x86_64 from openSUSE-12.2-OSS repo. The binary it install
>> goes into/Boot by default. I am also wondering if it can be put on a
>> thumb drive. Readme say a floppy or a folder. No floppy on my system.
>>
>> An help would be greatly appreciated. I will report this on Bugzilla.
>
> I would suggest that you do some slot-swapping with your RAM modules. If
> you have, in fact, a bad RAM stick it will show the same address if you swap
> in the same 64-bit pair but will move when you swap it into the other pair.
>
> From the bare results you give it’s far more likely to be a bum memory than
> anything else. Not surprising - that’s why the memtest86 utility is so
> prominently carried.
>
Thanks for the response. I have four memory modules and I have swapped
them in all combination’s including taking all out except one. Same
problem.
Finally searched Bugzilla and found bug reported on the version of
memtest shipped with 12.2 version.
> Finally searched Bugzilla and found bug reported on the version of
> memtest shipped with 12.2 version.
Good to know. I keep a copy of Puppy Linux on a cd with all the diag apps
on it just to avoid such “improvements” so maybe it’s time for the biennial
update to that
Will Honea wrote:
> Russ Fineman wrote:
>
>> Finally searched Bugzilla and found bug reported on the version of
>> memtest shipped with 12.2 version.
>
> Good to know. I keep a copy of Puppy Linux on a cd with all the diag apps
> on it just to avoid such “improvements” so maybe it’s time for the biennial
> update to that
>
Loaded the 12.1 version of memtest86+ yesterday and it ran for four
hours (3+passes0 without an error. The problem appears to be in testing
the last 2 GB of my memory with the 12.2 version. It always shows more
memory that is actually installed ( show end at 8187M, it ends at 8196
if I remember right. Also 12.2 version starts at 196K, where 12.1
version starts at 200K. All tests ran fine on 12.1 version, 12.2
versions fails at test 7.
