[OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?)

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Thu Mar 31 05:30:45 PST 2005


On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:15 AM, Damian Gerow wrote:

> In the case of AMD64, it'd be almost pointless.  I've not yet been 
> able to
> run a copy of memtest86 on my machine (though it could have been due to
> memory problems at the time).
>

I found that memtest86 runs on a dual opteron, but doesn't discover my 
entire 4Gb of RAM.  It found 4032Mb only.  However, FreeBSD found the 
whole 4GB.  I shall try the memtest86+ next time.



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