[geeks] Looking for memtest86+

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 23:10:44 EDT 2022


I believe I saw it on the latest Hiren's boot disk image a couple of 
days ago.

On 9/5/22 10:03 AM, Mouse wrote:
> ...I didn't _expect_ this to be difficult.
>
> I've got a Soekris net4501 (basically, a 486/133) which has been
> occasionally crashing with peculiar messages that lead me to suspect
> flaky hardware.  So I wanted to run memtest86+.
>
> But memtest.org, which seems to be the home of memtest86+ from what my
> half-assed web skillz can tell, appears to offer v6 beta 3 for
> download, except it says v6 "is NOT READY for production yet!".  I
> haven't managed to find any indication where I might be able to get any
> other version - like, say, the latest _production-ready_ version.
>
> I even tried to get the v6 version, on the theory that a
> possibly-broken version is better than nothing, but all I've been able
> to find is Windows and linux ISOs, none of which appear to contain the
> memtest.bin I'm supposed to use for PXE booting (that being the
> practical way to do one-off runs on the 4501).
>
> So, anyone have a stashed copy they could throw my way?
>
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