[SWLUG] 256 mb mem stick

[hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:51:30PM +0000 or thereabouts, bascule wrote:
> i have one of the above that refuse to work, now it may be faulty of course, 
> but i've read that low quality memory is sometimes incompatible with some 
> systems due to the larger number of chips on them, there are 16 on this one, 
> if someone has some fool proof way to test this stick and you are going to 
> the lecture/meeting on mar 5th then perhaps you could help me out, 
> alternatively if someone knows more about the first part of this post i'm 
> ready to be enlightened

The way I know of to test memory is memtest86. I seem to remember
stuffing it on a floppy and running it overnight once. Which in
my case established the problem wasn't the memory, but hey, at
least it ruled it out :) 

	http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/

Telsa (who is going to said lecture, yes)