From: m.balarama on
Need to test a laptop with xp and see how much memory is working...
anyone know of a program to do this-preferably free.
thanks Michael
From: Bruce Chambers on
m.balarama wrote:
> Need to test a laptop with xp and see how much memory is working...
> anyone know of a program to do this-preferably free.
> thanks Michael


You can use MemTest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) It's free.


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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers(a)cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> m.balarama wrote:
>> Need to test a laptop with xp and see how much memory is working...
>> anyone know of a program to do this-preferably free.
>> thanks Michael
>
>
> You can use MemTest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) It's free.
>
>
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> Bruce Chambers
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> Help us help you:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375
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> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
>
> Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand
> Russell
>
> The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
> killed a great many philosophers.
> ~ Denis Diderot

Correct, use Memtest. Memtest is one of the options on many live Linux
distributions. In other words, you can boot the live CD to memtest in
addition to booting to Linux. I use Mepis for this but others are out
there. HTH. J