[mythtv-users] A plea for help

Ben Davis bendavis78 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 20:48:34 UTC 2007


Well, I ran Memtest86+ plus overnight, and after 46 passes, it shows no
errors whatsoever.   Are there any other test I can run?  Any CPU stress
tests?

On 9/24/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> David Brodbeck wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:04:39AM +0100, Paul King wrote:
> >>> I would also point to memory. I have found memtest86 less than
> >>> reliable.
> >> FWIW, we're not the only ones who think that: memtest86 was forked a
> >> while back:
> >>
> >>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86+
> >>
> >> I use plus, myself; it hasn't failed me yet.
> >
> > I doubt any diagnostic is 100% reliable.  Memtest86+ beats any other
> > I've tried, however.
>
> The main thing to remember is that "Windows runs OK on the machine" does
> NOT indicate that all of the RAM is OK.
>
> beww
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