memtest86

[Gene Collins]

Hi Igor.  You are making an unwarranted assumption.  Memtest86 will run
infinitely until told to stop.  Reading the man page before using a
diagnostic utility is always a good thing. The fact that you are in the
158th pass means that you have scanned all your memory 158 times.

Gene

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>Hi all. I am suspecting bad ram in one of my machines as a cause of why I can'
t install Slackware...Or rather, why it bombs out fater attempting to install L
ess. And I don't think its the 
>installation media, since I don't hear the drive spinning up and down...Which 
would be the drive doing read attempts and failing. So I'm running Memtest86 on
 my box now, which has 1 GB of some 
>what I think is shitty Kingston PC3200 DDR SDRAM. Memtest86 so far has been ru
nning for sevreal days, and I'm not sure how long its supposed to take. Its on 
pass 158 out of what I think is 
>1024, assuming every MB is being tested individually. Also, if there are any e
rrors, would they be displayed after all the testing is complete? Or will they 
scroll by as the tests were 
>running? 
>- -- 
>Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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