Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:26:43 +1000 From: "Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen" <gabpaul@popa.melbpc.org.au> To: "Kevin Kinsey" <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 - how to check RAM Message-ID: <opsox6mt1brokg8m@a2-46.melbpc.org.au> In-Reply-To: <425737B3.4090709@daleco.biz> References: <opsos56oa0rokg8m@a2-6.melbpc.org.au> <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <op.sos61itcuxkvrk@asu-reaper> <20050406122721.GA33679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <op.sos9oygduxkvrk@asu-reaper> <4253F42F.5010105@daleco.biz> <opsoxu52sorokg8m@a2-40.melbpc.org.au> <425737B3.4090709@daleco.biz>
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:02:27 -0500, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote: > >> OK, thanks for the info... now for the solution... >> >> I have more than 16 MB of ram available but it does nto seem to >> play well together or there is a problem with some of the chips. >> >> How do I trouble shoot my RAM chips? for instance, if I swap the >> 2 SIMMs I have in there atm it does not want to do the POST. is >> POST success sufficient to conclude that the chips are OK? is there a >> BSD utility to check or diagnose RAM condition or errors? >> >> (ahhh the joys of old hardware...) >> > > *g*, Yeah. I've got piles of it. Some of them are > my primary DNS/web machines, :-p > > As to the question -- Hmm, what should I say? yeah... which turned out to be my saviour... I dug out an old pile of MBs... which still had there mem chips intact, now have 98 MB in the machine, loading happily as I typo... > (1st, a parenthetical observation --- the FBSD list doesn't like > "top posting" much, and you forgot to cc: the list: many people > request that you keep all this discussion _on_ the list for a couple > of reasons. However, you're probably new to all this; consider > forgiveness extended, but try to play nicer next time? Nothing > personal, you understand ... just a "heads up" for the future....) No problems, thanks for the headsup... Not intentional, just used to lists that do auto-reply-to as default... :-) but I guess this is flame war material here... personally I have found top posting more useable as I tend to scan the email top first to see if I want to read... I can see the point though, in-line or bottom post presumably being prefered for some reason ;-) guess it's a style thing, one that I'm not fussed by, so I'll tow the line... > > The standard answer for "RAM issues" is to download the > program "memtest86", which is available for most any > computing platform. (e.g., it's OS independent once > you create the floppy disk). Running this program will create > a bootable floppy disk that you stick in the box, boot > into, and it runs tests all day long until you shut it down. > > I believe you want http://www.memtest.org > > IIRC, you may be able to get a log/report from it, so > you don't have to sit there through $n iterations of > the test and watch the screen for errors, but YMMV. > > As for mixing chips, it's been a long, long time, and I > was more like a "hobbyist" then (maybe still am), but > I do seem to remember it was a "no no" to mix EDO > and FP chips, or some such, blah blah.... > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey ta! that looks just what I want... Knowing the hardware is fine goes a long way to solving bugs ;-) -- ########## Paul van den Bergen, #### # Gabrielle Harrison # # # & Anja van den Bergen # #### # 848 High Street Rd #### # # Glen Waverley VIC 3150 Australia # ###### gabpaul@melbpc.org.au # # ph: +613 9886 3160 ##### mob: 042 886 3160
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