[rescue] test old hardware

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:11:40PM +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>memtest86+ stopped in the middle of pass 1 and
>and said everything is OK.  Should I believe this?
>Shouldn't it keep going? BTW, I am running with
>the memtest86+ CD removed. OK?
>

I've had computers that ran a week with the old memtest (circa 2005) that
crashed in 30 seconds after a sucessfull Windows XP boot, and never
actually loaded a 2.6 Linux Kernel before panicing.

I have never used anything later. 

Geoff.

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