Re: Detecting Bad Memory Chips of the PC

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From: Mike Palmer
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 19:47

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praetzel@maxwell.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Praetzel) writes:

>In article <1993Jul26.023904.52079@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>        I have posted a message in the news that I needed some information
>>on detecting bad memory chips..In case you can be of any help please let me
>>know...Is there any public domain software available on that? Any software
>>that Ican buy?

> QAPlus has a memory test routine.
> However, most computers do a thorough (but it can be bypassed) memory
> test when they are first turned on (or hard reset).  But that does not

The power on test does not thouroughly test the memory at all.  You need
to run something like checkit memory test for 24 hours to be reasonably
certain that memory is OK.

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Subject: Re: Detecting Bad Memory Chips of the PC
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