On Thursday 27 May 2004 21:24, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> > The ebay seller was teriffic about swapping the offending module. The
> > replacement has a Dell part number, and is labeled 128 EDO.
>
> I second that, I just got my replacement (also a Dell part) and popped
> it into the W2K 560x.
> So far everything looks good, it passed the internal memory check and
> seems to run fine. I was able to open the control panel and hardware
> device manager without incident.
> I tried playing an MP3 while creating thumbnail images with IRFANview,
> the music slowed down noticeably but nothing crashed.
> I'm now running Memtest (one pass so far, no errors).
> I have 2 questions:
> What else can I do to test this memory?
> How many passes through Memtest is considered sufficient?
>
> Thanks
Memtest is a decent tester. If you are worried about memory, leave it
running for 24 hours. If it hasn't found problems by then, you have good
memory. I've never seen memtest take longer than a few hours to spot
a problem.
Another test is to do something that requires a lot of CPU and moves
stuff in memory around a lot. I've found that compiling the world in my
OS (OpenBSD) is a great test for hardware--I've crashed into bugs in
the hardware several times now, taking a new machine and compiling
on it. So that kind of thing works well too.
--STeve Andre'
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