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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 09:28:44 -0400
From:      Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildworld fails...
Message-ID:  <390ED80C.5B3F8677@magpage.com>
References:  <200005012244.PAA18097@freeway.dcfinc.com> <390E0F78.AE694C64@magpage.com> <14606.4507.916264.944604@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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> 
>  http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
> 
> I've used this recently on some DIMMs that I got at fry's (and promptly
> returned because they were crap).
> 
> There's people that say "only a hardware memory tester is reliable" which is
> true, but at least this program helped**.
> 
> -Jr
> 
> ** helped in the sense that I saw craploads of errors which if I was running
>    an OS at that point in time, would have translated into non-cool
>    things. The progie doesn't really help "narrow down" anything. Just "got
>    bad RAM--go get another stick." ....
> 
cool, thanks, exactly what I was looking for.  Would be nice if it
pinpointed which DIMM was failing, but that's nothing a little manual
swapping can't tell me.  thanks.

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