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racketboy - Sep 6, 2003

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    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
man! how long is memtest supposed to take on 1GB or RAM?

On the readme the test example was a Celeron-366 with 64MB of SDRAM.

test 2 took 00:01:02.

My 2.4Ghz with 1GB has taken a half hour so far just for test 2.

Is this normal?

It won't respond to my keyboard commands.

Does this thing freeze up?

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
Ok I turned off the system and started it back up.

This time it shows the progress on test 2 to be at 3%.

Last time I believe it was stuck at %1 before reboot.

It seems to be stuck again.

What's wrong?

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
update: I tried testing each stick of 512MBs by itself. Still pretty much get the same results

    Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 8, 2003 
mem tests take a LONG time, just let it sit.

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
alright -- if you say so

they should have more times listed on the readme

    Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 8, 2003 
I've seen them run for hours.

    ExCyber Sep 8, 2003 
AFAIK it should be responding to keyboard commands. It's possible that it offends your chipset's sensibilities.

    Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 8, 2003 
What brand mem?

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
good ol Crucial

it won't get past 3% on step 2

    Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 8, 2003 
You're not accidently ocing or anything like that right? Like all your multipliers are set correctly and all, right?

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
I got it configuration mode and went straight to step 3 -- seems to move fine now.

Wonder why step 2 wasn't friendly

Here's what step 2 is FYI:

Test 2 [Address test, own address, no cache]

Each address is written with its own address and then is checked

for consistency. In theory previous tests should have caught any

memory addressing problems. This test should catch any addressing

errors that somehow were not previously detected.

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 

  
Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit@Sep 9, 2003 @ 02:37 AM

You're not accidently ocing or anything like that right? Like all your multipliers are set correctly and all, right?


how would I do that?

I didn't mess with any settings

    Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 8, 2003 
That may be your problem ^_^. Check your bios, make sure that you have all your multipliers set right. And make sure the fsb speed is set right.

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 

  
Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit@Sep 9, 2003 @ 02:43 AM

That may be your problem ^_^. Check your bios, make sure that you have all your multipliers set right. And make sure the fsb speed is set right.


what should they be?

the CPU and FSB speed are correct in the BIOS.

ANy other settings?

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
it went through test 3 about 4 times -- no errors.

then I ran test 4 -- went 6 times no errors -- then froze on 7th pass

    racketboy Sep 8, 2003 
any replies about the memtest problem can go here:

http://www.phantasy-star-universe.com/foru...ST&f=...

thanks!


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