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From: m.balarama on 25 Jun 2010 20:38 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 25 Jun 2010 22:05 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. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 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
From: jfg on 29 Jun 2010 21:16
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers(a)cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message news:i03n8k$ro8$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > 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. > > > -- > > Bruce Chambers > > Help us help you: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 > > 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 |